Audiobook of "The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish NYC"

After three years of work, I am thrilled that my new book, "The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City," will shortly be published by the State University of New York's Excelsior Press.

The 382 page book re-examines the impossible-to-overstate influence of Yiddish popular culture on New York through food, theater, architecture, radio, crime, and music.

Having recorded and produced over 50 records (garnering five Grammy nominations) and a 2002 Peabody Award for the 10-part NPR radio series, "The Yiddish Radio Project," (and a recent Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Recorded Sound Collections, ARSC), I am pretty excited to be back in the studio to produce an audio version of my book.

But this will be more than just an audio version the book as it allows me to include excerpts of many of the period Yiddish recordings about which I write making this somewhere between an audiobook and a podcast (a "Sapozcast?")

The finished audiobook will run about 15 hours and take twice that to record and mix. Funding will cover studio costs and the package/booklet design. I look to have it out this fall.

All donors will be acknowledged in the credits and receive a copy of the audiobook

Please join me!