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Catskill culture : a mountain rat's memories of the great Jewish resort area

Title: Catskill culture : a mountain rat's memories of the great Jewish resort area / Phil Brown.
Author: Brown, Phil.
Publication: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©1998.

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Description

xi, 298 pages : illustrations, map; 26 cm

Summary

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 were attracting over a million people a year. 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. 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.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-290) and index.

Contents

Returning to the Catskills -- How the Jewish Catskills started -- Kuchalayns and bungalow colonies -- Hotel life -- Entertainment -- "Mountain rats": the more skilled workers and other veterans -- Young workers: waiters, busboys, counselors, bellhops, and others -- Guests -- Resort religion and Yiddishkeit -- Decline, present, and future -- What made it so special?

ISBN

1566396425
9781566396424

LCCN

98011996

OCLC

ocm38426081
38426081
SCSB-417022

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library