A Life Forged in the East End Born in Stepney, within the vibrant and storied landscape of London’s East End, Ivor Weiss was a child of the Romanian-Jewish immigrant experience. The son of successful furriers, his early years were steeped in the cultural textures of a community shaped by tradition and movement. While his formal studies at the Northampton Road Polytechnic were abruptly interrupted by the onset of the Second World War,…