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In the Catskills : a century of Jewish experience in "The Mountains" / edited by Phil Brown.
LIBRA F127.C3 I5 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--New York (State)--Catskill Mountains Region--Social life and customs.
- Jews.
- Jews--Recreation--New York (State)--Catskill Mountains Region.
- Jews--Recreation.
- Manners and customs.
- Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
- Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.).
- New York (State)--Catskill Mountains Region.
- Local Subjects:
- Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 415 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Through fiction, memoir, music, photography, and art, In the Catskills highlights the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its continuing impact on American music, comedy, food, culture, and religion. It features selections from such fiction writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Herman Wouk, Allegra Goodman, and Vivian Gornick; and original contributions from historians, sociologists, and scholars of American and Jewish culture that trace the history of the region, the rise of hotels and bungalow colonies, the wonderful flavors of food and entertainment, and distinctive forms of Jewish religion found in the Mountains
- What was life -- the work, the play, the food, the romance -- like at Catskills Mountains resorts? These very personal recollections capture the special sense of community and real sense of freedom that developed. Far from the welter of the city, Jewish families learned to vacation and enjoy themselves, to savor the social mobility and cultural space the resorts afforded, and to nourish their culinary and comic traditions. From "Bingo by the Bungalow" by Thane Rosenbaum to "Young Workers in the Hotels" by Phil Brown to "Shoot the Shtrudel to Me, Yudel!" by Henry Foner, this charming anthology captures an era that has had enormous impact on the Jewish experience and American culture as a whole.
- "Whenever I speak about the Catskills," observes editor Phil Brown, "I am struck by the strength of people's desire to relive their experiences in the Mountains." If you've visited the Catskills yourself, heard stories from your parents or grandparents, or are just interested in this extraordinary time and place, pack your bags and prepare to enjoy your stay In the Catskills
- Contents:
- Part 1. History 1
- Sleeping in My Parents' Hotel: The End of a Century of the Jewish Catskills / Phil Brown 9
- Jewish Farmers of the Catskills / Abraham Lavender, Clarence Steinberg 22
- Hotels and the Holocaust / Reuben Wallenrod 39
- The Catskills at the End of World War II / Martin Boris 42
- Part 2. Boarding House, Bungalow, and Kuchalayn Life 57
- The Yearning Heifer / Isaac Bashevis Singer 64
- Grine Felder
- A Place in the Country / Martin Boris 75
- Bingo by the Bungalow / Thane Rosenbaum 81
- Bungalow Colony Life / Irwin Richman 96
- Bungalow Stories / Arthur Tanney 110
- Part 3. Hotel Life 127
- Dinner at the Rigi Kulm House / Abraham Cahan 140
- Old Stock / Hortense Calisher 143
- Young Workers in the Hotels / Phil Brown 155
- The Pool / Eileen Pollack 167
- Growing Up at Grossinger's / Tania Grossinger 177
- Five and Three House / Sidney Offit 183
- Reflections on the Delmar Hotel and the Demise of the Catskills / Jerry A. Jacobs 198
- Part 4. Entertainment 215
- Comics, Singers, and Tummlers / Joey Adams, Henry Tobias 224
- The Social Director at the Adult Summer Camp / Moss Hart 236
- The Casino / Harvey Jacobs 243
- The Fine Art of Mountain Tummling / Joyce Wadler 248
- Yener Welt
- music and lyrics / Phil Brown 256
- Shoot the Shtrudel to Me, Yudel!
- music and lyrics / Henry Foner 260
- Part 5. Romance 265
- Miss Tevkin / Abraham Cahan 272
- Forbidden Fruit / Harvey Jacobs 280
- Marjorie at South Wind / Herman Wouk 287
- Amy Lourie / Terry Kay 298
- Part 6. Religion 321
- Bungalow Summer: The Catskills, New York / Robert Eisenberg 331
- The Shul in Kaaterskill Falls / Allegra Goodman 349
- Part 7. Food 361
- Eating at the Hotel / Sarah Sandberg 367
- The Catskills Remembered / Vivian Gornick 371
- Bungalow / Elizabeth Ehrlich 377
- Appendices Links to More Sources 391
- Hotels of the Catskills 413
- Bungalow Colonies of the Catskills 415.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-412).
- ISBN:
- 0231123604
- OCLC:
- 47224694
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