"Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York: from the Suppressed to the Strange" Book reading/signing/presentation, with Jonathan Ezra Goldman

Jonathan Ezra Goldman presents Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange, offering a kaleidoscopic view of NYC as it was becoming the city we’d recognize today – bursting at the seams, full of class, racial and ethnic tensions, rich in the arts and new music, progress clashing with profiteering, poverty, and political violence. It pushes aside the clichés of flappers and gangsters, money and skyscrapers, and tells the stories that fall by the wayside of history because they don't fit the popular version of history—and/or because those stories are about the powerless and marginalized: New Yorkers who got relegated to the margins because they were Black, Native American, from East Asia, the West Indies; New Yorkers who read and wrote in Arabic, in Ladino, in Spanish; New Yorkers who were persecuted because they were gay or gender nonconforming; New Yorkers who fought for equal rights and lower rents, who performed illicit abortions, smuggled stowaways, created LGBTQ+ safe spaces. On a more pedestrian level, the book is an attempt to capture what it was like to walk the streets, wear the clothes, and work the jobs of the city in this iconic decade.

Tickets:
$30 with copy of book, signed
$5 without