Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust, and the Literary Imagination

by Holli Levitsky and Phil Brown

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1618114182
• ISBN13: 9781618114181
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"