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In the Catskills : A Century of Jewish Experience in "The Mountains" (2004)

Brown, Phil, [editor.]

New York, NY :Columbia University Press,

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Format: 1 online resource (367 pages) : , illustrations.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2004. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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ISBN: 9780231504409

Content: Through fiction, memoir, music, and art, this book offers a glimpse of the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its continuing impact on American culture. The book features contributions from such writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer and Vivian Gornick; and original contributions from historians, sociologists, and scholars of American and Judaic studies.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Sleeping in My Parents’ Hotel: The End of a Century of the Jewish Catskills / , Jewish Farmers of the Catskills / , Hotels and the Holocaust / , The Catskills at the End of World War II / , Introduction -- , The Yearning Heifer / , Grine Felder—A Place in the Country / , Bingo by the Bungalow / , Bungalow Colony Life / , Bungalow Stories / , Introduction -- , Dinner at the Rigi Kulm House / , Old Stock / , Young Workers in the Hotels / , The Pool / , Growing Up at Grossinger’s / , Five and Three House / , Reflections on the Delmar Hotel and the Demise of the Catskills / , Introduction -- , Comics, Singers, and Tummlers / , The Social Director at the Adult Summer Camp / , The Casino / , The Fine Art of Mountain Tummling / , Yener Welt—music and lyrics / , Shoot the Shtrudel to Me, Yudel!—music and lyrics / , Introduction -- , Miss Tevkin / , Forbidden Fruit / , Marjorie at South Wind / , Amy Lourie / , Introduction -- , Bungalow Summer: The Catskills, New York / , The Shul in Kaaterskill Falls / , Introduction -- , Eating at the Hotel / , The Catskills Remembered / , Bungalow / , Annotated Bibliography -- , Hotels of the Catskills -- , Bungalow Colonies of the Catskills. , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/brow12360

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/brow12360

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