{"product_id":"the-tourists-guide-to-lost-yiddish-new-york-city","title":"The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry H. Sapoznik \u003c\/b\u003eis a five-time Grammy-nominated producer\/performer of over fifty recordings and author of the award-winning book \u003ci\u003eKlezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1. Essen! Eating!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. \u003ci\u003eKashrus\u003c\/i\u003e: The Quest for Kosher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Trotzky's Kosher Restaurant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. The Jewish Delicatessen: \"The Stronghold of Pungent Meat\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Of Knishes and Kishkes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Joseph Moskowitz and Romanian Restaurants\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Yiddish Champagne: Seltzer and Dr. Brown's Celery Tonic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. From Adjective to Noun: The Appetizing Store\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. \"Eat in Good Health!\" Dairy and Vegetarian Restaurants\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Fast, Crowded, and Cheap: The Cafeteria\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. Raisins and Almonds: Chunky Milk Chocolate\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2. Architecture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. The Rise and Fall of the House of Jarmulowsky\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. The \u003ci\u003eForverts \u003c\/i\u003eBuilding: From Socialist to Socialite\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. Harrison G. Wiseman: Builder of New York Yiddish Theaters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. Hotel Herzl: Max Bernstein and the Libby's Hotel and Baths\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3. Music\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15. \"To Hear...\" The First Yiddish Records\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16. The First Yiddish Recording Artists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e17. Jews and Jazz: From Before the Beginning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e18. Sam Ash and Shimele Blank: Two Music Stores\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e19. \u003ci\u003eKhazntes\u003c\/i\u003e: Women Cantors of the Stage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e20. Thomas LaRue Jones, Goldye Mae Sellers and the Lost World of Black Cantors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4. Theater\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e21. Yente Telebende: The Woman with the Wallop\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e22. Uncle Thomashefsky's Cabin: The 1900s Yiddish Uncle Tom Shows\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e23. Before Jolson: \u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Singer\u003c\/i\u003e, Jessel, and the Jews\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...Sapoznik is in his element. Drawing energetically on the digital bounty of the Yiddish press, canvassing thousands of advertisements, he does for place what he's done for klezmer music and Yiddish radio: endow it with presence and weight.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJewish Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Since the 1970s, few have done more than Sapoznik to shed light on various facets of Yiddish culture and history ... he has managed to both help preserve and disseminate cultural elements that might otherwise be lost to history.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Times of Israel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is filled with deep original research leavened by lively writing and good humor. Anyone with an interest in New York City or Yiddish language and culture will read it with pleasure.\" -- \u003ci\u003eOpen Letters Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...[a] superb new book ... Sapoznik writes about something that's irretrievably lost, which is why it feels like a yizkor book. \u003ci\u003eLost Yiddish New York City\u003c\/i\u003e is one of a newly-developing (and long overdue) genre of books about vernacular Jewish culture, focusing on how ordinary people lived.\" -- \u003ci\u003eForward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City\u003c\/i\u003e. Anyone interested in New York City needs a copy of this book!\" -- Nancy Groce, Folklorist, American Folklife Center\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eThe Tourist's Guide\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eJack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald's Assassin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...Sapoznik is in his element. Drawing energetically on the digital bounty of the Yiddish press, canvassing thousands of advertisements, he does for place what he's done for klezmer music and Yiddish radio: endow it with presence and weight.\" - \u003ci\u003eJewish Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Since the 1970s, few have done more than Sapoznik to shed light on various facets of Yiddish culture and history ... he has managed to both help preserve and disseminate cultural elements that might otherwise be lost to history.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Times of Israel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is filled with deep original research leavened by lively writing and good humor. Anyone with an interest in New York City or Yiddish language and culture will read it with pleasure.\" - \u003ci\u003eOpen Letters Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...[a] superb new book ... Sapoznik writes about something that's irretrievably lost, which is why it feels like a yizkor book. \u003ci\u003eLost Yiddish New York City\u003c\/i\u003e is one of a newly-developing (and long overdue) genre of books about vernacular Jewish culture, focusing on how ordinary people lived.\" - \u003ci\u003eForward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City\u003c\/i\u003e. Anyone interested in New York City needs a copy of this book!\" - Nancy Groce, Folklorist, American Folklife Center\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eThe Tourist's Guide\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eJack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald's Assassin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA history of New York's Yiddish popular culture from 1880 to the present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new look at over a century of New York's history of Yiddish popular culture. Henry H. Sapoznik-a Peabody Award-winning coproducer of NPR's \u003ci\u003eYiddish Radio Project\u003c\/i\u003e-tells the story in over a baker's dozen 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. Containing fifty images, many of which have never before been published, the book is complemented by an online interactive Google Map linked to over one hundred of the historic locations discussed in the book, with additional graphics and resource materials. \u003ci\u003eThe Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid, entertaining, and accessible compendium of both New York's lush Ashkenazic past and present, showcasing the culture's persistent resiliency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eSapoznik, Henry H\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHenry H. Sapoznik \u003c\/b\u003eis a five-time Grammy-nominated producer\/performer of over fifty recordings and author of the award-winning book \n\u003ci\u003eKlezmer! 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