{"product_id":"summer-haven-the-catskills-the-holocaust-and-the-literary-imagination-9781618114181","title":"Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust, and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSummer Haven\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eSummer Haven\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly captures a crucial part of the legacy of Jewish life in America.\" -- Victoria Aarons, O.R. \u0026amp; Eva Mitchell Distinguished Professor of Literature, Trinity University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer Haven\u003c\/i\u003e is a must read for all those interested in Jewish culture in an American context set against the background of the Holocaust. Under the astute editorship of Holli Levitsky and Phil Brown, this volume hones in on the Catskills examining from a variety of literary perspectives how the Holocaust was experienced in this very American setting. Among the book's many achievements is its demonstration that while Jews vacationed in the Catskills, their thoughts—and nightmares—were of their persecuted European coreligionists. -- Alan L. Berger, Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair in Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University\u003cbr\u003e“Evoking times of great pleasure interwoven with fear and mourning, this rich collection of fiction, essays, memoirs, and inter-generational reflections shows that the Catskills, a holiday refuge, was still intimately connected to the Holocaust. \u003ci\u003eSummer Haven\u003c\/i\u003e sets the sharply rendered details of local history in a vital international context.\" -- Eric J. Sundquist, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University, author of \u003ci\u003eStrangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As its sub-title proclaims, \u003ci\u003eSummer Haven\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the Catskills, the Holocaust and the Literary Imagination, how Jews came to America after experiencing the agony and horror of the Holocaust and experienced the unique and almost make-believe-funny and peaceful world of the Catskills. We are there through many pages of fiction, memoirs, essays, personal and general, reflections, and musings. The result is an evocation of a time and place, a way of life that belonged to history and now belongs to all of us fortunate enough to have this special book. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.\" -- Dr. Harvey Frommer, Dartmouth College, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eIt Happened in the Catskills\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cp\u003e Sources and Permissions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Framing and History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Phil Brown and Holli Levitsky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Reuben Wallenrod’s Dusk in the Catskills and its Central Role in Catskills Holocaust History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Holli Levitsky and Phil Brown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Memoirs and Conversations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Memoir from Before My Birth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Phil Brown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Holocaust, the Catskills, and the Creative Power of Loss \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Holli Levitsky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Catskill Reflections: Testimonial, Literary, and Jewish Values in Singer’s Novel \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sandor Goodhart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Legacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Michael Berenbaum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Imaginings and Re-imaginings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From Dusk in the Catskills\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Reuben Wallenrod\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Dusk in the Catskills: My Father, the Holocaust, Memories, and Reflections\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Naima (Wallenrod) Prevots\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From Enemies, A Love Story\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Isaac Bashevis Singer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Holocaust, Three Women, One Man, and a Rabbi: Posthumous Reading in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Enemies, A Love Story\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sandor Goodhart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From Summer on a Mountain of Spices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Harvey Jacobs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Reflections on Summer on a Mountain of Spices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Harvey Jacobs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From Woodridge 1946\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Martin Boris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “Not to Know the Past is to Diminish the Future”: Reflections on Woodridge 1946\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gloria Boris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, II: And Here My Troubles Began\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Art Spiegelman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e What We Didn’t Know\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Hilene Flanzbaum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From Paradise, New York\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Eileen Pollack\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Preserving the Catskills: An Exercise in Nostalgia, or Survival?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Eileen Pollack\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bingo by the Bungalow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Thane Rosenbaum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Renewal \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Thane Rosenbaum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Catskills Muse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Phil Brown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Reflections on “A Catskills Muse”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Phil Brown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Joseph Berger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Resuming Life After the War: Survivors in the Catskills\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Joseph Berger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Catskills (or What Was, Was, and Is No More) from A Jew Grows in Brooklyn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jake Ehrenreich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Reflections on A Jew Grows in Brooklyn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jake Ehrenreich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From Dreaming in the Ninth \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ezra Cappell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Balm of Gilead: Haunted in the Catskills\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ezra Cappell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e New Imaginings and Last Days\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Four Seasons Lodge: Survivors in the Bungalow Colony\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Andrew Jacobs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Prize-Winning Essays: Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Catskill Dreams and Pumpernickel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bonnie Shusterman Eizikovitz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Your Dovid \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Rita Calderon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Prize-Winning Essay: Non-Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Forgiving God in the Catskills\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Michael Kirschenbaum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359749341527,"sku":"9781618114181","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781618114181.jpg?v=1754125591","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/summer-haven-the-catskills-the-holocaust-and-the-literary-imagination-9781618114181","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}