Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt
(1986)
Documentary
81min
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Overview
At its peak, one million New York Jews spent their summers in the Borscht Belt, the birthplace of Jewish-American iconoclastic humor. This film shows how these Catskills communities were run by women, and how class divisions were reflected in the resort hotels: upwardly-mobile hotel guests were ente ...
Joseph Wiseman
Acting
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