WELCOME
to the (mostly) professional website of Jonathan Ezra Goldman, literature/cultural history professor by day, sometime musician by night. I created this site as a one-stop portal for the various projects I've had going on over the past few years, some completed, some in progress.
NEW BOOK
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
My new book, Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange (SUNY Press, 2026) is now available for pre-order! Email me for a discount code.
Launch Event
JUNE 4, 2026 at BOOK CULTURE
Join me for a launch event June 4, 2026 at Book Culture.
This book is a culmination of years of research about 1920s NYC, some of which you can find on my website New York 1920s: One Hundred Years Ago Today, When We Became Modern.
Explore a playlist of songs discussed in “Hidden History of Jazz Age New York"
UPDATES
Winter/Spring 2026:
Read Ulysses with me this spring in my annual Irish Arts Center course (online this year). Finish in time for Bloomsday on June 16th!
New article!
I am very pleased that The Syncopated Times published my piece about the opening of the Savoy, NYC's first dance club to discard Jim Crow practices, 100 years ago. Read it here.
I contributed a“Including Frances Steloff” to Centripetal Joyce / Joyce Centrifugal, selected papers from the International James Joyce Foundation symposium in Dublin 2022 marking the centenary of the publication of Ulysses. My chapter chronicles the impact on Joyce’s legacy founder of the Gotham Book Mart and the James Joyce Society. Find out more here.