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More than one hundred voices recall the "Borscht Belt" in its heyday.
A collective memoir of the famed “Borscht Belt,” that fabled summer resort area “just ninety minutes from Broadway,” It Happened in the Catskills melds side-splitting humor and tender nostalgia into an evocative look at the Americanization of New York’s Eastern European Jewish population and the impact of Jewish culture on the larger American scene. More than a hundred Catskill veterans―from the famed entertainers who got their start in bungalow colonies and small hotels to the cooks, waiters, busboys, mamboniks, and boys in the band―reveal through their recollections an experience that now exists only in memory. Illlustrated throughout with period photographs.
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A collective memoir of the famed "Borscht Belt," that fabled summer resort area "just ninety minutes from Broadway," It Happened in the Catskills melds side-splitting humor and tender nostalgia into an evocative look at the Americanization of New York's Eastern European Jewish population and the impact of Jewish culture on the larger American scene. More than a hundred Catskill veterans--from the famed entertainers who got their start in bungalow colonies and small hotels to the cooks, waiters, busboys, mamboniks, and boys in the band--reveal through their recollections an experience that now exists only in memory. Illustrated throughout with period photographs.
"The truth about the Catskills--unexpurgated tales of heartache and laughter. This book will touch all who read it." -- Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara
"The definitive story of a time and place that I hope will never end." -- Regis Philbin
"Great insight into what the Catskills were about." -- Yakov Smirnoff
"I enjoyed it. I should--I lived it." -- Alan King
"Exuberant--an unqualified treat." -- Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer are the authors of many works of oral history, including It Happened in Brooklyn, It Happened on Broadway, and Growing Up Jewish in America. They both teach at Dartmouth College, and they live in Lyme, New Hampshire.
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- PublisherExcelsior Editions
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1438427484
- ISBN 13 9781438427485
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages245
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