Summer Haven

• 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

"Summer Haven brings to life the vibrant culture of the Jewish Catskills against the backdrop of the Nazi devastation of Jewish life in Europe. I know of no other book that recreates with such richness the history and character of the Catskills and the defining culture of Yiddishkeit. Peopled by refugees and survivors, the Catskills provided a haven in response to loss and displacement, a New Jerusalem, as expressed in the literary imagination, memoirs, and scholarly responses so lovingly collected in this valuable book. Summer Haven brilliantly captures a crucial part of the legacy of Jewish life in America."