🍃Carkner🥺looks interesting, I registered. the author is one of the original klezmer revival dudes of the 70s & interviewed a lot of old timers when they were still around.
https://ajhs.org/events/book-talk-the-tourists-guide-to-lost-yiddish-new-york-city/
Book Talk - The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City - American Jewish Historical Society
The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of Yiddish culture in New York City. Author Henry H. Sapoznik focuses on theater, music, architecture, crime, Black-Jewish cultural interactions, restaurants, real estate, and journalism to tell the history of New York’s Yiddish popular culture from 1880 to the present.