The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
- Author Henry H. Sapoznik
- Narrator Henry H. Sapoznik
- Publisher Henry H. Sapoznik
- Publish Date 9 December 2025
- Run Time 15 hours and 4 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Social and cultural history, Theatre studies.
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
“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!”
“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!”
“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.”
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