Like many a New Yorker, Forverts superstar journalist Abraham Shulman got stuck in an elevator while visiting a friend on the 10th floor of a Manhattan apartment building. What transpires is the unfolding and unravelling of a longtime Yiddish writer and humorist’s imaginary wanderings—while on hold in that elevator—with one other mysterious passenger. Join Forward archivist Chana Pollack as we ride with Shulman and examine this hilarious only in New York Yiddish moment, straight out of the archives of the Forverts Yiddish newspaper.
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