Overview
The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of New York's history of Yiddish popular culture. Henry H. Sapoznik--a five-time Grammy-nominated performer/producer and Peabody Award-winning co-producer of NPR's Yiddish Radio Project--tells the story in chapters on theater, music, architecture, crime, Blacks and Jews, restaurants, real estate, and journalism. Culled from over five thousand Yiddish and English newspaper articles of the period, and thanks to new research from previously inaccessible materials, the book reveals fresh insights into the impossible-to-overstate influence of Yiddish culture on New York City. The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City is a vivid, entertaining, and accessible compendium of both New York's lush Ashkenazic past and present, showcasing the culture's persistent resiliency. Contains fifteen minutes of Yiddish audio content.
Full Product Details
Author: Henry H Sapoznik ,
Henry H Sapoznik
Publisher: Henry H. Sapoznik
Imprint: Henry H. Sapoznik
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9798228704046
Publication Date: 09 December 2025
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""Henry Sapoznik has broken new ground again. He has a knack for endowing the ephemeral with longevity by treating each ticket, advertisement, poster, theater program, menu, photograph, or recording as a piece of a puzzle of a lost Yiddish New York that only he could envision. The result is a deeply researched, engaging, and richly illustrated account of a world lost and found. A fascinating book and must-read!"" -- ""Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and University Professor Emerita at New York University "" ""This you should read! From knishes to khazones, the Forvert to Cel-Ray, and forgotten cultural triumphs and nadirs, you couldn't find a better guide to New York's Yiddish heritage than The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City. Anyone interested in New York City needs a copy of this book!"" -- ""Nancy Groce, Folklorist, American Folklife Center"" ""With The Tourist's Guide, Henry Sapoznik conjures a yiddishe ghost-New York in a book that will make awestruck tourists even out of seen-it-all city natives. Though many of the book's locales are described, sadly, as razed and replaced, Sapoznik brings them so vividly to life that, if you look out of the corner of your eye, you might even see Yonah Schimmel himself racing to deliver a platter of knishes."" -- ""Danny Fingeroth, author of Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald's Assassin""
Author Information
Henry H. Sapoznik is the Peabody Award-winning co-producer of the 2002 NPR series The Yiddish Radio Project, a five-time Grammy-nominated producer/performer of over fifty recordings, and author of the award-winning book Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World. Henry H. Sapoznik is the Peabody Award-winning co-producer of the 2002 NPR series The Yiddish Radio Project, a five-time Grammy-nominated producer/performer of over fifty recordings, and author of the award-winning book Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World.
