A summer world : the attempt to build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills from the days of the ghetto to the rise and decline of the Borscht Belt / Stefan Kanfer
- Bib ID:
- 927887
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kanfer, Stefan
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989
- 333 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0374271801
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Introduction 3
- 1/Implosions 5
- 2/Sholem 12
- 3/Emigration Fever 26
- 4/A Jewry That Had Burst All Bounds 49
- 5/The Lesson of Windy 69
- 6/Sharpening the Enemy's Dagger 89
- 7/Malaise in the Mountains 114
- 8/Sex, Love, and Expandable Time 133
- 9/The Fifty-Hole Golf Course 158
- 10/Laughter a Little Too Loud 178
- 11/Elbowing History Offstage 199
- 12/Arthur Murray, Cary Grant,
- Solomon and Charley's Aunt 220
- 13/Drs. Schweitzer and Strangelove 240
- 14/A More Ecumenical Approach 257
- 15/Vichyssoise in CatskilLand 274
- 16/A Change of Season 285
- Source Notes 299
- Bibliography 313
- Acknowledgments 319
- Index 321.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 313-318.
- Subject:
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- Jews -- New York (State) -- Catskill Mountains Region -- History
- Summer resorts -- New York (State) -- Catskill Mountains Region -- History
- Performing arts -- New York (State) -- Catskill Mountains Region -- History
- Jewish entertainers -- New York (State) -- Catskill Mountains Region -- Biography
- Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations
- Also Titled:
- Borscht Belt
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1989
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