Catskill Culture : A Mountain Rat's Memories of the Great Jewish Resort Area

By (author) Brown, Phil

A century ago, New Yorkers, hungry for mountain air, good food, and a Jewish environment combined with an American way of leisure, began to develop a resort area unique in the world. By the 1950s, this summer Eden of bungalow colonies, summer camps, and over 900 hotels had attracted over a million people a year. This was the Jewish Catskills of Sullivan and Ulster Counties. Born to a small hotel-owning family who worked for decades in hotels after losing their own, Phil Brown tells a story of the many elements of this magical environment. His own waiter's tales, his mother's culinary exploits as a chef, and his father's jobs as maitre d' and coffee shop operator offer a backdrop to the vital life of Catskills summers."Catskill Culture" recounts the life of guests, staff, resort owners, entertainers, and local residents through the author's memories and archival research and the memories of 120 others. The Catskills resorts shaped American Jewish culture, enabling Jews to become more American while at the same time introducing the American public to immigrant Jewish culture. Catskills entertainment provided the nation with a rich supply of comedians, musicians, and singers.Legions of young men and women used the Catskills as a springboard to successful careers and marriages. A decline for the resort area beginning in the 1970s has led to many changes.Today most of the hotels and bungalow colonies are gone or in ruins, while other communities, notably those of the Hasidim, have appeared. The author includes an appendix listing over 900 hotels he has been able to document and invites readers to contact him with additional entries. Phil Brown, Professor of Sociology, Brown University, is co-founder of the Catskills Institute and the editor of "In The Catskills: A Century of the Jewish Experience in The Mountains".

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  • Acknowledgments 1. Returning to the Catskills 2. How the Jewish Catskills Started 3. Kuchalayns and Bungalow Colonies 4. Hotel Life 5. Entertainment 6. "Mountain Rats": The More Skilled Workers and Other Veterans 7. Young Workers: Waiters, Busboys, Counselors, Bellhops, and Others 8. Guests 9. Resort Religion and Yiddishkeit 10. Decline, Present, and Future 11. What Made It So Special? Appendix: Hotels of the Catskills Notes Bibliography Index Photographs

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書名 Catskill Culture : A Mountain Rat's Memories of the Great Jewish Resort Area
著作者等 Brown, Phil
書名別名 A Mountain Rat's Memories of the Great Jewish Resort Area
出版元 Temple University Press,U.S.
刊行年月 2003.05.08
版表示 New ed
ページ数 304p
大きさ H254 x W178
ISBN 9781592131891
言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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