Summer Haven : : The Catskills, the Holocaust, and the Literary Imagination / / Holli Levitsky, Phil Brown.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2015
• VerfasserIn: Levitsky, Holli,; Brown, Phil,
• MitwirkendeR: Berenbaum, Michael,; Berger, Joseph,; Boris, Gloria,; Boris, Martin,; Brown, Phil,; Calderon, Rita,; Cappell, Ezra,; Ehrenreich, Jake,; Eizikovitz, Bonnie Shusterman,; Flanzbaum, Hilene,; Goodhart, Sandor,; Jacobs, Andrew,; Jacobs, Harvey,; Kirschenbaum, Michael,; Levitsky, Holli,; Pollack, Eileen,; Prevots, Naima (Wallenrod),; Rosenbaum, Thane,; Singer, Isaac Bashevis,; Spiegelman, Art,; Wallenrod, Reuben,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Sources and Permissions -- Framing and History -- Introduction -- Reuben Wallenrod’s Dusk in the Catskills and its Central Role in Catskills Holocaust History -- Memoirs and Conversations -- A Memoir from Before My Birth -- The Holocaust, the Catskills, and the Creative Power of Loss -- Catskill Reflections: Testimonial, Literary, and Jewish Values in Singer’s Novel -- Legacy -- Imaginings and Re-imaginings -- From Dusk in the Catskills -- Dusk in the Catskills: My Father, the Holocaust, Memories, and Reflections -- From Enemies, A Love Story -- The Holocaust, Three Women, One Man, and a Rabbi: Posthumous Reading in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Enemies, A Love Story -- From Summer on a Mountain of Spices -- Reflections on Summer on a Mountain of Spices -- From Woodridge 1946 -- “Not to Know the Past is to Diminish the Future”: Reflections on Woodridge 1946 -- From Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began -- What We Didn’t Know -- From Paradise, New York -- Preserving the Catskills: An Exercise in Nostalgia, or Survival? -- Bingo by the Bungalow -- Renewal -- A Catskills Muse -- Reflections on “A Catskills Muse” -- From Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust -- Resuming Life After the War: Survivors in the Catskills -- The Catskills (or What Was, Was, and Is No More) from A Jew Grows in Brooklyn -- Reflections on A Jew Grows in Brooklyn -- From Dreaming in the Ninth -- Balm of Gilead: Haunted in the Catskills -- New Imaginings and Last Days -- The Four Seasons Lodge: Survivors in the Bungalow Colony -- Prize-Winning Essays: Fiction -- Catskill Dreams and Pumpernickel -- Your Dovid -- Prize-Winning Essay: Non-Fiction -- Forgiving God in the Catskills -- Index