About this episode
Stuart Brown interviews Henry H. Sapoznik about his book on Yiddish popular culture in New York City.
On this episode of On Broadway, I speak with Henry H. Sapoznik, a Peabody Award-winning coproducer of NPR's Yiddish Radio Project, about his book - The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City . The book offers a new look at over a century of New York's history of Yiddish popular culture, telling the story in over a baker's dozen chapters on theater, music, architecture, crime, Blacks and Jews, restaurants, real estate, and journalism. For the podcast, we focus on the chapter about the Yiddish theater.
People in this episode
Host: Stuart Brown
Guest: Henry H. Sapoznik
Topics covered
- Yiddish culture
- New York history
- Yiddish theater
- music
- architecture
Keywords
- Yiddish Radio Project
- Peabody Award
- Yiddish theater
- New York City
- popular culture
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: NPR
Books & works: The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
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