The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
979-8-8558-0173-6 (ISBN)
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 Peabody Award-winning coproducer of NPR's Yiddish Radio Project-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. 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.
Henry H. Sapoznik is 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.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Essen! Eating!
1. Kashrus: The Quest for Kosher
2. Trotzky's Kosher Restaurant
3. The Jewish Delicatessen: "The Stronghold of Pungent Meat"
4. Of Knishes and Kishkes
5. Joseph Moskowitz and Romanian Restaurants
6. Yiddish Champagne: Seltzer and Dr. Brown's Celery Tonic
7. From Adjective to Noun: The Appetizing Store
8. "Eat in Good Health!": Dairy and Vegetarian Restaurants
9. Fast, Crowded, and Cheap: The Cafeteria
10. Raisins and Almonds: Chunky Milk Chocolate
Part 2. Architecture
11. The Rise and Fall of the House of Jarmulowsky
12. The Forverts Building: From Socialist to Socialite
13. Harrison G. Wiseman: Builder of New York Yiddish Theaters
14. Hotel Herzl: Max Bernstein and the Libby's Hotel and Baths
Part 3. Music
15. "To Hear...": The First Yiddish Records
16. The First Yiddish Recording Artists
17. Jews and Jazz: From Before the Beginning
18. Sam Ash and Shimele Blank: Two Music Stores
19. Khazntes: Women Cantors of the Stage
20. Thomas LaRue Jones, Goldye Mae Sellers and the Lost World of Black Cantors
Part 4. Theater
21. Yente Telebende: The Woman with the Wallop
22. Uncle Thomashefsky's Cabin: The 1900s Yiddish Uncle Tom Shows
23. Before Jolson: The Jazz Singer, Jessel, and the Jews
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.07.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Excelsior Editions |
| Zusatzinfo | 45 Figures; 7 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 499 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-8558-0173-6 / 9798855801736 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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