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  • The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City

    by Henry H. Sapoznik ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    A history of New York's Yiddish popular culture from 1880 to the present.Finalist for the 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional categoryThe 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... ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City

    by Henry H. Sapoznik ...
    Narrated by Henry H. Sapoznik ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 4 min

    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. ... Read more

    $41.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Hard Luck Blues

    Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression

    by Rich Remsberg, Henry Sapoznik ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    Showcasing American music and music making during the Great Depression, Hard Luck Blues presents more than two hundred photographs created by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration photography program. With an appreciation for the amateur and the local, FSA photographers depicted a range of musicians sharing the regular music of everyday life, from informal songs in migrant work camps, ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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    Yiddish Radio Project

    by David Isay, Henry Sapoznik ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 17 min

    The Yiddish Radio Project is based on a series of stories featured on NPR's All Things Considered in the spring of 2002. The series highlights the golden age of Yiddish-American broadcasting in the 1930s to '50s. In its heyday Yiddish radio was heard from coast to coast, with a dozen stations in New York alone. All that survives from that incredible era are 500 hours of material preserved on 1,000 ... Read more

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  • The Story of Yiddish

    How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews

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    "An interesting and quirky and sometimes irreverent look at how the Yiddish language has survived all over the world." — Jerusalem PostYiddish—an oft-considered "gutter" language—is an unlikely survivor of the ages, much like the Jews themselves. Its survival has been an incredible journey, especially considering how often Jews have tried to kill it themselves. Underlying Neal Karlen's unique, ... Read more

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    400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village

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