German broadcast. Nailed it

Over the past month, New York has welcomed the world. From neighborhood watch parties to the stadium, we’ve celebrated the communities that make our city the global capital of the beautiful game. Today, we close out a historic World Cup, proud of how New Yorkers showed up every step of the way.

Today at around 5:30 EST I'll be interviewed live for the #Indypendent news hour on fabled radio station #WBAI, talking about uncovering suppressed NYC history and why it matters now. @sunypress.bsky.social @newyork1920s.bsky.social #hiddenhistoriesofjazzagenewyork wbai.org/program.php?...

In #1920s #NYC, July 4 was the occasion for assimilationist events such as the 1920 "Americanization Jubilee" (spelled "jubillee" on the medal for youth athletes). @sunypress.bsky.social @newyorkcity.bsky.social #HiddenHistoriesofJazzAgeNewYork #NYC @nyitlibraries.bsky.social www.ny1920.com/jul-4

July 4 — NY 1920s

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"Goldman’s 'Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York' pays homage to the unsung heroes, the radical influencers and characters less than heroic of the early 1920s in this scholarly yet accessible work." www.irishecho.com/2026/6/big-a... #irishecho @newyork1920s.bsky.social @sunypress.bsky.social

Big Apple's Jazz Age highlights

“Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York, From the Suppressed to the Strange,” by Jonathan Ezra Goldman. “Be careful in New York, Katie, the streets ...

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Come see me read with Hugh @hughryan.bsky.social !

HiddenHistories1920sNYC@newyork1920s.bsky.social · last mo.

Wed, July 8, @jonnysemicolon.bsky.social reading and signing #HiddenHistoriesofJazzAgeNewYork at @barnesandnoble.com Upper West Side, with Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social @sunypress.bsky.social @nyitlibraries.bsky.social @nypl.bsky.social To Register: stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

Two events this coming week for #hiddenhistoriesofjazzagenewyork 6/23 (online) for Bloomingdale History Grouo 6/25 Greenwich Village Preservation (at St Mark's church) @sunypress.bsky.social @nyitlibrary @nypl www.jonathanegoldman.com/events #ny1920s #nypl @hiddenhistoriesofjazzagenewyork

Jonathan E. Goldman | Author, Scholar & Jazz Age NYC Historian

Official site of Jonathan E. Goldman, featuring work on New York 1920s history, Jazz Age culture, modernist literature, and Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York.

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Wrote this one 12 years ago. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/06... @parisreview.bsky.social @joycesociety.bsky.social #ulysses @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social @jamesjoycegazette.bsky.social

Bloomsday Explained by Jonathan Goldman

June 13, 2014 – “Bloomsday,” the James Joyce scholar Robert Nicholson once quipped, “has as much to do with Joyce as Christmas has to do with Jesus.” The celebrations of

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Great to see you and Ray there @ria4983.bsky.social

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@jonnysemicolon.bsky.social's Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from @sunypress.bsky.social is such a delight! The launch at Book Culture was really fun too! 💫

The New School chapter of the American Association of University Professors condemned what it described as “a major gutting of our full-time faculty body”… saying that no explanation had been provided for why certain jobs were cut. www.chronicle.com/article/its-...

‘It’s Just Been Agony’: Facing a Big Deficit, the New School Begins Layoffs

One of New York’s most prominent universities has handed layoff notices to about 15 percent of its employees, marking its latest measure to rectify a $48-million budget deficit.

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June 7 (6/7, oy) book launch at #CityReliquary! Jonathan Ezra Goldman discusses "Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange" w/ Briallen Hopper ("HARD TO LOVE"). @briallenhopper.bsky.social @jonnysemicolon.bsky.social @sunypress.bsky.social @nyitlibraries.bsky.social

Sun, Jun 7 - Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York: Jonathan Ezra Goldman with Briallen Hopper by The City Reliquary

Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York: Jonathan Ezra Goldman with Briallen Hopper by The City Reliquary on Sun, Jun 7 at 6:00pm at The City Reliquary, Brooklyn, New York. Get tickets and event details...

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Looking forward to this!

HiddenHistories1920sNYC@newyork1920s.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Western New York! @jonnysemicolon.bsky.social reading at Talking Leaves books tonight, moderated by Damien Keane. tleavesbooks.com/event/2026-0... @sunypress.bsky.social @talkingleavesbooks.bsky.social

This weekend Columbia U stages its graduation activities and celebrates its history. 103 years ago, at the Columbia commencement, the KKK paraded through the grounds.A year later, the KKK burned a cross on the quad. CU admin tried to sweep all this under the rug. indypendent.org/2026/05/colu...

Columbia’s Cooperation With ICE Calls Back to KKK Days

During the 1920s KKK resurgence, Columbia swept anti-Black persecution under the rug

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For #independentbookstoreday, celebrating joints that will be hosting my mini-book tour 5/3 East End, Boston 5/4 Brown U Bookstore, Providence 5/4: Stanza, Beacon 5/22 Madison Street, Chicago 5/27 Talking Leaves, Buffalo 6/4 Book Culture 112th St, afterparty at Dive106 @sunypress.bsky.social

#hiddenhistoriesofjazzagenewyork Pre-order with 30% off discount code "SNWS26" at checkout. The publisher tells me to tell my friends that "pre-orders are love." #NYChistory #Newyorkhistory sunypress.edu/.../Hidden-H.... @sunypress.bsky.social @jonnysemicolon.bsky.social @nyitlibrary.bsky.social

#onthisdayinhistory... 105 years ago today, James Cross, a Black maintenance worker, saved a white coworker from a fire. One of the events depicted in Jonathan Ezra Goldman's new book #hiddenhistoriesofjazzagenewyork @sunypress.bsky.social @jonnysemicolon.bsky.social www.ny1920.com/1921apr-9

Folks, #Ulysses was just named the greatest novel of all time... again. That's silly, but what's not silly (except in good ways) is the online course I'm leading on it that starts next week. irishartscenter.org/event/u-for-... parade.com/news/controv...

Why yes, if you are in Paris looking to buy my new book, #HiddenHistoriesofJazzAgeNewYork, you will be able to get it at Shakepeare and Co. @shakespeareandcompany.com www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/hidden... @sunypress.bsky.social @brooklynsocial.bsky.social @newyork1920s.bsky.social

Please spread the word about my upcoming course at Irish Arts Center: "U for You! Joyce's Ulysses for New Readers (and Re-Readers) (Online)" irishartscenter.org/event/u-for-...

New review of #HiddenHistoriesofJazzAgeNewYork "giving readers a sense of how contemporary New Yorkers viewed the urban world around them." artsfuse.org/326490/april... @sunypress.bsky.social @brooklynsocial.bsky.social

April Short Fuses — Materia Critica - The Arts Fuse

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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As someone who writes personal essays (and also thinks about AI very often), this was a topic I couldn't resist. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Proud to have an article in a brilliant collection, Jim Crow Modernism, edited Adam McKible, Robert Jackson, and Keith Clark. My piece is an extension of research from my new book #hiddenhistoriesofjazzagenewyork academic.oup.com/book/62299/c... academic.oup.com/book/62299

Luis Muñoz Marín: Boricua Modernism between Poetics and Politics

Abstract. This chapter reads the 1920s fiction, verse, and journalism of Luis Muñoz Marín, written two-plus decades before he became the first democratical

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#Kirkus review of my book has arrived: "Historian Goldman’s ambitious book takes a detailed dive into New York City over 10 years.... This complex city, he writes, was a rich site of “acceleration and deceleration.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... @sunypress.bsky.social #nyitlibrary

Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York

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Happy to see my new book on sale at @rizzolibooks.bsky.social www.rizzolibookstore.com/category/new...

NYC! I'm doing a @lecturesontap.bsky.social on April 20 in a secret location. Reach out for details. The idea is: I talk, you drink. I'll be presenting on immigration (immigrant communities, suppression, and deportations) in 1920s NYC. Part of the launch of #HiddenHistoriesofJazzAgeNewYork

Published this piece for the centenary of the opening of the Savoy, the first truly integrated dance club in New York City. #100yearsago #nychistory @sunypress.bsky.social syncopatedtimes.com/the-opening-...

The Opening of the Savoy, the Most Inclusive Club in Harlem, 100 Years Ago - The Syncopated Times

March 12, 2026, marks the centenary of opening night at the palatial, opulent Savoy Ballroom, which occupied an entire block of Lenox Avenue between 140th and

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"This shameful attack on the St. John's faculty union betrays the university's history and most deeply-held Catholic values. It's outrageous that religious leaders are joining in the assaults on higher education that are happening nationwide." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

St. John's University says it no longer recognizes faculty unions after 56 years

St. John's University in Queens, New York, notified employees on Feb. 19 that it will no longer recognize the two unions that have represented faculty members at the Catholic university since 1970.

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Scenes from our 4-week "Circe" reading group. 2 more sessions to go! Thanks to guest facilitators Casey Lawrence @myexplodingpen.bsky.social and Robert Spoo. Next up: Vicki Mahaffey! on board!(@samslote.bsky.social had a last minute conflict.) Join us! Info at Joycesociety.com/readinggroups

I'm sort of tickled that at 2:30 pm the day after not watching the Superbowl I can tell you a lot about the halftime show but I don't know who won the game.