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In the Catskills : a Century of Jewish Experience in ""The Mountains""
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 histor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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'sFive 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 HotelThe Catskills Remembered; Bungalow; Appendices-Links to More Sources; Annotated Bibliography; Hotels of the Catskills; Bungalow Colonies of the Catskills.