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Summer haven : the Catskills, the Holocaust, and the literary imagination

Title
Summer haven : the Catskills, the Holocaust, and the literary imagination / edited by Holli Levitsky and Phil Brown.
Publication
  • Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2015.
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
  • Levitsky, Holli
  • Brown, Phil
Description
x, 402 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"This volume provides for the first time a collection of writing that investigates the stories and struggles of survivors in the context of the Jewish resort culture of the Catskills, through new and existing works of fiction and memoir by writers who spent their youths there. It explores how vacationers, resort owners, and workers dealt with a horrific contradiction--the pleasure of their summer haven against the mass extermination of Jews throughout Europe. It also examines the character of Holocaust survivors in the Catskills: in what ways did people find connection, resolution to conflict, and avenues to come together despite the experiences that set them apart? The book will be useful to those studying Jewish, American, or New York history, the Holocaust and Catskills legacy, United States immigration, American literature, and American culture. The focus on themes of nostalgia, humor, loss, and sexuality will draw general readers as well."--
Series Statement
Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
Uniform Title
Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy.
Subject
  • Holocaust survivors > New York (State) > Catskill Mountains
  • Holocaust survivors' writings
  • Ethnic relations
  • Holocaust survivors
  • Juden
  • Judenvernichtung
  • Literatur
  • Rezeption
  • Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations
  • New York (State) > Catskill Mountains
  • Catskill Mountains
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Framing and history -- Memoirs and conversations -- Imaginings and re-imaginings -- New imaginings and last days -- Prize-winning essays: fiction -- Prize-winning essay: non-fiction.
Call Number
JFE 17-8335
ISBN
  • 9781618114181
  • 1618114182
  • 9781618115164
  • 1618115162
LCCN
2016452691
OCLC
881039182
Title
Summer haven : the Catskills, the Holocaust, and the literary imagination / edited by Holli Levitsky and Phil Brown.
Publisher
Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe and Their Legacy
Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and their legacy.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note
NOT HANDLED ON AP-RECENT REPRINT.
Added Author
Levitsky, Holli, editor.
Brown, Phil, editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 17-8335
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