The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland by Marisa Sheinfeld bilingual raucous and utterly fascinating

raucous and utterly fascinating

she demonstrates how Jewish-American fiction can help us understand the larger anxieties about ethnic identity

this text offers a variety of literary works spanning the 17th to the 20th centuries

and history have been projected

this collection is a tribute to a thriving---and often neglected---literary heritage

The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland by Marisa Sheinfeld bilingual raucous and utterly fascinatingToday the Borscht Belt is recalled through the nostalgic lens of summer swims, Saturday night dances, and comedy performances. But its current state, like that of many other formerly glorious regions, is nothing like its earlier status. Forgotten about and exhausted, much of its structural environment has been left to decay. The Borscht Belt, which features essays by Stefan Kanfer and Jenna Weissman Joselit, presents Marisa Scheinfeld's photographs of