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the film "The Catskills" is a feature-length documentary film on the rise and fall of the Borscht Belt. With a trove of lost-and-found archival footage and a cast of characters endowed with the gift of gab, "The Catskills" journeys into the storied mountain getaway north of New York City that served as refuge for Jewish immigrants fleeing ...
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10 lug 2023 · Extract. Full duration: 80mins. To order the full film or clips in high/lo-res or to find out more visit: http://w...
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Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt: Regia di Peter Davis. Con Joseph Wiseman. This 1986 film chronicles the rise and fall of the summer pilgrimage from New York City to the Catskills once made by 1 million people a year from the 1920s to the 1960s.
The Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt, produced and directed by Peter Davis, chronicles the history of this unique corner of American popular culture. Davis contends that the Borscht Belt emerged from two impulses: the desire of Jews to become American, while at the same time to enjoy recreation sensitive to Jewish culture.
The Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt. From the 1920s to the 1960s, nearly a million Jews from New York City and around the country travel to country resorts in the fresh air of the...
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