The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City

The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York CityA history of New York's Yiddish popular culture from 1880 to the present. 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

including imaginative literature

the female colonial romance

the nature of religious conversion

imperial politics took cholera mapping in a wholly different direction and contributed to Britons' perceptions of Indian space as quite different from that of home

autobiographical novel that brings to life the world of silent cinemas and music-halls of 1920s Manchester and Blackpool

Park Chan-wook

and industrial capitalism

—that was worse

The 20th Century &endash

and Dyczkowski provides new insight into the most literate and extensive interpretations of the Tantras

It explores the impact of the Anglo-Indian colonial encounter on the arts and aesthetic traditions of both countries

Hegel began this chapter with an influential discussion of the nature of human "desire