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Hustling Hitler: The Jewish Vaudevillian Who Fooled the Führer

Online via Zoom

Walter Shapiro takes us along on a magic carpet ride of his great-uncle’s ever-crooked trajectory through show business, from his early schemes as the loudest talking vaudeville agent on Broadway to his days producing silent movies (with his show-girl wife as the star) before the unfortunate insurance fire. Of course, all of Freeman Bernstein’s cons […]

The Belnord, Beresford and Barney G: West Side Stories

Online via Zoom

Journalist, editor, publisher and now memoirist Peter Osnos is joined by journalists Walter Shapiro and Meryl Gordon for a fascinating discussion on the Upper West Side of the 1950s and 1960s. The Osnos family, fleeing the Nazis, settled first in the Blenord and then The Beresford. Peter Osnos revisits the UWS of his youth–a place of immigrants, artists and academics, a […]