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In the Catskills : A Century of Jewish Experience in "The Mountains".
Title:
In the Catskills : A Century of Jewish Experience in "The Mountains".
Author:
Brown, Phil.
ISBN:
9780231504409
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (353 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. History -- 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 -- Part 2. Boarding House, Bungalow, and Kuchalayn Life -- Introduction -- The Yearning Heifer -- Grine Felder-A Place in the Country -- Bingo by the Bungalow -- Bungalow Colony Life -- Bungalow Stories -- Part 3. Hotel Life -- 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 -- Part 4. Entertainment -- 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 -- Part 5. Romance -- Introduction -- Miss Tevkin -- Forbidden Fruit -- Marjorie at South Wind -- Amy Lourie -- Part 6. Religion -- Introduction -- Bungalow Summer: The Catskills, New York -- The Shul in Kaaterskill Falls -- Part 7. Food -- Introduction -- Eating at the Hotel -- The Catskills Remembered -- Bungalow -- Appendices-Links to More Sources -- Annotated Bibliography -- Hotels of the Catskills -- Bungalow Colonies of the Catskills.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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