Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

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

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Historie

“A nostalgic pastiche of fiction, memoir, photography, art, postcards, menus, etc., celebrating Jewish resort life in the Catskills.”—Providence Journal With selections ranging from literature to song lyrics, this book 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.

What was life—the work, the play, the food, the romance—like at Catskills Mountains resorts? These very personal recollections capture the special sense of community and freedom that developed among Jewish families leaving the city behind for a summer vacation and enjoying a cultural space of their own. From “Bingo by the Bungalow” by Thane Rosenbaum to “Young Workers in the Hotels” by Phil Brown to “Shoot the Shtrudel to Me Yudel” by Henry Foner, this charming anthology captures an era that has had enormous impact on the Jewish experience and American culture as a whole.

“A warm, charming, and valuable work. Much of the writing is simply gorgeous.”—Contemporary Sociology

© 2004 Columbia University Press (E-bog): 9780231504409

Release date

E-bog: 21. april 2004

Andre kan også lide...

  1. The Global Remapping of American Literature Paul Giles
  2. Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form David J. Alworth
  3. At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present Deborah Epstein Nord
  4. Maimonides: Life and Thought Moshe Halbertal
  5. Three Women Lisa Taddeo
  6. We Share the Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration Rachael Cerrotti
  7. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World Jonathan Freedland
  8. Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Robert D. Putnam
  9. Secrets & Saviours Beverley Elphick
  10. What Happens When We Practice Religion?: Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life Robert Wuthnow
  11. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency Olivia Laing
  12. The Barefoot Bingo Caller: A Memoir Antanas Sileika
  13. Of Human Born: Fetal Lives, 1800–1950 Caroline Arni
  14. Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America Marc Dollinger
  15. Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America Hasia R. Diner
  16. Siting Michelangelo : Spectatorship, Site Specificity and Soundscape Peter Gillgren
  17. Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball Christopher J. Phillips
  18. The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement Hajar Yazdiha
  19. The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena's Life of Judah Mark R. Cohen
  20. Pasión Miguel Lourenco Pereira
  21. Retribution Beverley Elphick
  22. Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class Max Fraser
  23. The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia Rachel Manekin
  24. Bethink Yourselves! Leo Tolstoy
  25. The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History Susan Scott Parrish
  26. Religious Parenting: Transmitting Faith and Values in Contemporary America Christian Smith
  27. Dominican colors and swirls Jean-Pierre Alaux
  28. The Artist in the Counterculture: Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge Thomas Crow
  29. A King by Night Edgar Wallace
  30. Vistas of Modernity: decolonial aesthesis and the end of the contemporary Rolando Vázquez
  31. Keeping Faith at Princeton: A Brief History of Religious Pluralism at Princeton and Other Universities Frederick Houk Borsch
  32. Genau Riccardo Bevilacqua
  33. Love and Saint Augustine Hannah Arendt
  34. Mr Nobody Catherine Steadman
  35. Kafka: The Early Years Reiner Stach
  36. The Search Grace Livingston Hill
  37. Andrei Tarkovsky: The Collector of Dreams Layla Alexander-Garrett
  38. Hearing and Knowing Music: The Unpublished Essays of Edward T. Cone Edward T. Cone
  39. The Wes Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch Matt Zoller Seitz
  40. Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity Garth Fowden
  41. D'Angelo's Voodoo Faith A. Pennick
  42. Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes Jerry Z. Muller
  43. Backwards & In Heels: The Past, Present And Future Of Women Working In Film (Incredible Women Who Broke Barriers in Filmmaking) Alicia Malone
  44. Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction Mari Lending

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Prøv gratis