Summer Haven

The Catskills, the Holocaust, and the Literary Imagination

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Holli Levitsky, Phil Brown

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-10-01
Mått155 x 234 x 26 mm
Vikt789 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor416
FörlagAcademic Studies Press
ISBN9781618114181

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Acknowledgments Sources and PermissionsFraming and HistoryIntroductionPhil Brown and Holli LevitskyReuben Wallenrod’s Dusk in the Catskills and its Central Role in Catskills Holocaust HistoryHolli Levitsky and Phil BrownMemoirs and ConversationsA Memoir from Before My BirthPhil BrownThe Holocaust, the Catskills, and the Creative Power of Loss Holli LevitskyCatskill Reflections: Testimonial, Literary, and Jewish Values in Singer’s Novel Sandor GoodhartLegacyMichael BerenbaumImaginings and Re-imaginingsFrom Dusk in the CatskillsReuben WallenrodDusk in the Catskills: My Father, the Holocaust, Memories, and ReflectionsNaima (Wallenrod) PrevotsFrom Enemies, A Love StoryIsaac Bashevis SingerThe Holocaust, Three Women, One Man, and a Rabbi: Posthumous Reading in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Enemies, A Love StorySandor GoodhartFrom Summer on a Mountain of SpicesHarvey JacobsReflections on Summer on a Mountain of SpicesHarvey JacobsFrom Woodridge 1946Martin Boris“Not to Know the Past is to Diminish the Future”: Reflections on Woodridge 1946Gloria BorisFrom Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, II: And Here My Troubles BeganArt SpiegelmanWhat We Didn’t KnowHilene FlanzbaumFrom Paradise, New YorkEileen PollackPreserving the Catskills: An Exercise in Nostalgia, or Survival?Eileen PollackBingo by the BungalowThane RosenbaumRenewal Thane RosenbaumA Catskills MusePhil BrownReflections on “A Catskills Muse”Phil BrownFrom Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust Joseph BergerResuming Life After the War: Survivors in the CatskillsJoseph BergerThe Catskills (or What Was, Was, and Is No More) from A Jew Grows in BrooklynJake EhrenreichReflections on A Jew Grows in BrooklynJake EhrenreichFrom Dreaming in the Ninth Ezra CappellBalm of Gilead: Haunted in the CatskillsEzra CappellNew Imaginings and Last DaysThe Four Seasons Lodge: Survivors in the Bungalow ColonyAndrew JacobsPrize-Winning Essays: FictionCatskill Dreams and PumpernickelBonnie Shusterman EizikovitzYour Dovid Rita CalderonPrize-Winning Essay: Non-FictionForgiving God in the CatskillsMichael KirschenbaumIndex

"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."