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

Author/Contributor(s):	Brown, Phil
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	04/21/2004
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Through fiction, memoir, music, photography, and art, In the Catskills highlights the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its continuing impact on American music, comedy, food, culture, and religion. It features selections from such fiction writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Herman Wouk, Allegra Goodman and Vivian Gornick; and original contributions from historians, sociologists, and scholars of American and Jewish culture that trace the history of the region, the rise of hotels and bungalow colonies, the wonderful flavors of food and entertainment, and distinctive forms of Jewish religion found in the Mountains.