Henry Sapoznik, an award-winning producer of Yiddish recordings and radio programs, musicologist, performer and writer, published The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City. Once upon a time, about a hundred years ago, about a million and a half of New York’s Jews spoke Yiddish at home and at work. Sapoznik covers virtually every aspect of their life and culture, from food to architecture, music and theater, illustrated by tickets, advertisements, posters, restaurant menus and various photographs.

It’s worth to note that Yiddish-speaking New York still exists and flourishes in Hasidic Brooklyn enclaves such as Williamsburg and Boro Park, where thousands of Jews of all ages speak Yiddish on a daily basis. However, their lifestyle and culture differs in many ways quite radically from the Yiddish New York Sapoznik meticulously portrays in his well researched book.