Summer Haven

The Catskills, the Holocaust, and the Literary Imagination

Holli Levitsky, Phil Brown (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2016
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-61811-516-4 (ISBN)

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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 they 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.

Acknowledgments Sources and Permissions

Framing and History

Introduction

Phil Brown and Holli Levitsky

Reuben Wallenrod’s Dusk in the Catskills and its Central Role in Catskills Holocaust History

Holli Levitsky and Phil Brown

Memoirs and Conversations

A Memoir from Before My Birth

Phil Brown

The Holocaust, the Catskills, and the Creative Power of Loss

Holli Levitsky

Catskill Reflections: Testimonial, Literary, and Jewish Values in Singer’s Novel

Sandor Goodhart

Legacy

Michael Berenbaum

Imaginings and Re-imaginings

From Dusk in the Catskills

Reuben Wallenrod

Dusk in the Catskills: My Father, the Holocaust, Memories, and Reflections

Naima (Wallenrod) Prevots

From Enemies, A Love Story

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Holocaust, Three Women, One Man, and a Rabbi: Posthumous Reading in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Enemies, A Love Story

Sandor Goodhart

From Summer on a Mountain of Spices

Harvey Jacobs

Reflections on Summer on a Mountain of Spices

Harvey Jacobs

From Woodridge 1946

Martin Boris

“Not to Know the Past is to Diminish the Future”: Reflections on Woodridge 1946

Gloria Boris

From Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began

Art Spiegelman

What We Didn’t Know

Hilene Flanzbaum

From Paradise, New York

Eileen Pollack

Preserving the Catskills: An Exercise in Nostalgia, or Survival?

Eileen Pollack

Bingo by the Bungalow

Thane Rosenbaum

Renewal

Thane Rosenbaum

A Catskills Muse

Phil Brown

Reflections on “A Catskills Muse”

Phil Brown

From Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust

Joseph Berger

Resuming Life After the War: Survivors in the Catskills

Joseph Berger

The Catskills (or What Was, Was, and Is No More) from A Jew Grows in Brooklyn

Jake Ehrenreich

Reflections on A Jew Grows in Brooklyn

Jake Ehrenreich

From Dreaming in the Ninth

Ezra Cappell

Balm of Gilead: Haunted in the Catskills

Ezra Cappell

New Imaginings and Last Days

The Four Seasons Lodge: Survivors in the Bungalow Colony

Andrew Jacobs

Prize-Winning Essays: Fiction

Catskill Dreams and Pumpernickel

Bonnie Shusterman Eizikovitz

Your Dovid

Rita Calderon

Prize-Winning Essay: Non-Fiction

Forgiving God in the Catskills

Michael Kirschenbaum

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2018
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, unspecified
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-61811-516-2 / 1618115162
ISBN-13	978-1-61811-516-4 / 9781618115164
Zustand	Neuware