The name "
Whitechapel Boys" identifies a loosely-knit group of Anglo-
Jewish writers and artists of the early 20th century. It is named after
Whitechapel, which contained one of London's main Jewish settlements and from which many of its members came. These members included
Mark Gertler,
Isaac Rosenberg,
David Bomberg,
Joseph Leftwich, Jacob Kramer, Morris Goldstein,
Stephen Winsten,
John Rodker,
Lazarus Aaronson and its only female member,
Clara Birnberg.