The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City

The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of Yiddish culture in New York City. Author Henry H. Sapoznik focuses on theater, music, architecture, crime, Black-Jewish cultural interactions, restaurants, real estate, and journalism to tell the history of New York’s Yiddish popular culture from 1880 to the present. 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 influence of Yiddish culture on New York City and showcases the culture’s persistent resiliency.

Join YIVO for a discussion with Sapoznik about this new book, led by Eddy Portnoy.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

You may also like the following events from YIVO Institute for Jewish Research:

• This September, 16th September, 05:00 pm, Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891–1941 in New York, New York
• This September, 18th September, 07:00 pm, The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language in New York
• This September, 21st September, 01:00 pm, The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language in New York

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