
In the Catskills
by Brown, Phil-
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xv |
History | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 7 |
Sleeping in My Parents' Hotel: The End of a Century of the Jewish Catskills | p. 9 |
Jewish Farmers of the Catskills | p. 22 |
Hotels and the Holocaust | p. 39 |
The Catskills at the End of World War II | p. 42 |
Boarding House, Bungalow, and Kuchalayn Life | p. 57 |
Introduction | p. 61 |
The Yearning Heifer | p. 64 |
Grine Felder--A Place in the Country | p. 75 |
Bingo by the Bungalow | p. 81 |
Bungalow Colony Life | p. 96 |
Bungalow Stories | p. 110 |
Hotel Life | p. 127 |
Introduction | p. 137 |
Dinner at the Rigi Kulm House | p. 140 |
Old Stock | p. 143 |
Young Workers in the Hotels | p. 155 |
The Pool | p. 167 |
Growing Up at Grossinger's | p. 177 |
Five and Three House | p. 183 |
Reflections on the Delmar Hotel and the Demise of the Catskills | p. 198 |
Entertainment | p. 215 |
Introduction | p. 221 |
Comics, Singers, and Tummlers | p. 224 |
The Social Director at the Adult Summer Camp | p. 236 |
The Casino | p. 243 |
The Fine Art of Mountain Tummling | p. 248 |
Yener Welt--music and lyrics | p. 256 |
Shoot the Shtrudel to Me, Yudel!--music and lyrics | p. 260 |
Romance | p. 265 |
Introduction | p. 269 |
Miss Tevkin | p. 272 |
Forbidden Fruit | p. 280 |
Marjorie at South Wind | p. 287 |
Amy Lourie | p. 298 |
Religion | p. 321 |
Introduction | p. 329 |
Bungalow Summer: The Catskills, New York | p. 331 |
The Shul in Kaaterskill Falls | p. 349 |
Food | p. 361 |
Introduction | p. 365 |
Eating at the Hotel | p. 367 |
The Catskills Remembered | p. 371 |
Bungalow | p. 377 |
Links to More Sources | p. 391 |
Annotated Bibliography | p. 393 |
Hotels of the Catskills | p. 413 |
Bungalow Colonies of the Catskills | p. 415 |
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