Summer haven : the Catskills, the Holocaust, and the literary imagination / edited by Holli Levitsky and Phil Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levitsky, Holli, Author.

Contributor:

Levitsky, Holli, editor.

Brown, Phil, editor.

Series:

Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy.

Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and their legacy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust survivors--New York (State)--Catskill Mountains.

Holocaust survivors.

Jews--New York (State)--Catskills Mountains.

Jews.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)--Ethnic relations.

Catskill Mountains (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume provides for the first time a collection of writing that investigates the stories and struggles of survivors in the context of the Jewish resort culture of the Catskills, through new and existing works of fiction and memoir by writers who spent their youths there. It explores how vacationers, resort owners, and workers dealt with a horrific contradiction-the pleasure of their summer haven against the mass extermination of Jews throughout Europe. It also examines the character of Holocaust survivors in the Catskills: in what ways did they people find connection, resolution to conflict, and avenues to come together despite the experiences that set them apart? The book will be useful to those studying Jewish, American, or New York history, the Holocaust and Catskills legacy, United States immigration, American literature, and American culture. The focus on themes of nostalgia, humor, loss, and sexuality will draw general readers as well.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Sources and Permissions

Framing and History

Introduction / Brown, Phil / Levitsky, Holli

Reuben Wallenrod's Dusk in the Catskills and its Central Role in Catskills Holocaust History / Levitsky, Holli / Brown, Phil

Memoirs and Conversations

A Memoir from Before My Birth / Brown, Phil

The Holocaust, the Catskills, and the Creative Power of Loss / Levitsky, Holli

Catskill Reflections: Testimonial, Literary, and Jewish Values in Singer's Novel / Goodhart, Sandor

Legacy / Berenbaum, Michael

Imaginings and Re-imaginings

From Dusk in the Catskills / Wallenrod, Reuben

Dusk in the Catskills: My Father, the Holocaust, Memories, and Reflections / Prevots, Naima (Wallenrod)

From Enemies, A Love Story / Singer, Isaac Bashevis

The Holocaust, Three Women, One Man, and a Rabbi: Posthumous Reading in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Enemies, A Love Story / Goodhart, Sandor

From Summer on a Mountain of Spices / Jacobs, Harvey

Reflections on Summer on a Mountain of Spices / Jacobs, Harvey

From Woodridge 1946 / Boris, Martin

"Not to Know the Past is to Diminish the Future": Reflections on Woodridge 1946 / Boris, Gloria

From Maus: A Survivor's Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began / Spiegelman, Art

What We Didn't Know / Flanzbaum, Hilene

From Paradise, New York / Pollack, Eileen

Preserving the Catskills: An Exercise in Nostalgia, or Survival? / Pollack, Eileen

Bingo by the Bungalow / Rosenbaum, Thane

Renewal / Rosenbaum, Thane

A Catskills Muse / Brown, Phil

Reflections on "A Catskills Muse" / Brown, Phil

From Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust / Berger, Joseph

Resuming Life After the War: Survivors in the Catskills / Berger, Joseph

The Catskills (or What Was, Was, and Is No More) from A Jew Grows in Brooklyn / Ehrenreich, Jake

Reflections on A Jew Grows in Brooklyn / Ehrenreich, Jake

From Dreaming in the Ninth / Cappell, Ezra

Balm of Gilead: Haunted in the Catskills / Cappell, Ezra

New Imaginings and Last Days

The Four Seasons Lodge: Survivors in the Bungalow Colony / Jacobs, Andrew

Prize-Winning Essays: Fiction

Catskill Dreams and Pumpernickel / Eizikovitz, Bonnie Shusterman

Your Dovid / Calderon, Rita

Prize-Winning Essay: Non-Fiction

Forgiving God in the Catskills / Kirschenbaum, Michael

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 9, 2016).

ISBN:

1-61811-419-0

OCLC:

1055401583