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A summer world : the attempt to build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills from the days of the ghetto to the rise and decline of the Borscht Belt

Title
  1. A summer world : the attempt to build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills from the days of the ghetto to the rise and decline of the Borscht Belt / Stefan Kanfer.
Published by
  1. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989.
Author
  1. Kanfer, Stefan.

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Description
  1. 333 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Alternative title
  1. Borscht Belt.
Subject
  1. Jews > New York (State) > Catskill Mountains Region > History
  2. Summer resorts > New York (State) > Catskill Mountains Region > History
  3. Performing arts > New York (State) > Catskill Mountains Region > History
  4. Jewish entertainers > New York (State) > Catskill Mountains Region > Biography
  5. Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations
Call number
  1. *PXY 90-56
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 313-318.
Author
  1. Kanfer, Stefan.
Title
  1. A summer world : the attempt to build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills from the days of the ghetto to the rise and decline of the Borscht Belt / Stefan Kanfer.
Imprint
  1. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989.
Edition
  1. 1st ed.
Bibliography
  1. Bibliography: p. 313-318.
Added title
  1. Borscht Belt.
LCCN
  1. 89011782
ISBN
  1. 0374271801 : $22.95
Research call number
  1. *PXY 90-56
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