Jonathan Ezra Goldman

Jonathan Ezra Goldman (he/him) is a professor in the Department of Humanities, New York Institute of Technology, author of Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange, and Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity. He directs the digital project, NY 1920s: 100 Years Ago Today, When We Became Modern, is president of the James Joyce Society and is the bandleader for Spanglish Fly.

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

Jonathan Ezra Goldman March 11, 2026

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

March 2026