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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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
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