TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joselit,Jenna Weissman
AU  - Kanfer,Stefan
AU  - Scheinfeld,Marisa
TI  - The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland
SN  - 9781501707711
AV  - F127 
U1  - 974.738 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Abandoned buildings
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - Catskill Mountains Region
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Catskill Mountain Region (N.Y.)
KW  - Jews
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Resorts
KW  - Art History
KW  - Photography
KW  - Travel / United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abandoned sites
KW  - Abandonment
KW  - Adirondacks
KW  - Amish Country
KW  - Art Book
KW  - Atlantic City
KW  - Bed and breakfasts
KW  - Bethlehem
KW  - Black and White Photography
KW  - Booking
KW  - Boutique hotels
KW  - Boutique inns
KW  - Buffalo
KW  - Bungalow colonies
KW  - Catskill Mountain region
KW  - Catskills
KW  - Coffee Table Book
KW  - Color Photography
KW  - Contemporary Photography
KW  - Cooperstown
KW  - Decay
KW  - Documentary Photography
KW  - Documentation of American Jewish history
KW  - Forgotten history
KW  - Hotels
KW  - Marisa Scheinfeld
KW  - Nature reclaiming
KW  - Structural environment
KW  - Travel
KW  - Upstate New York
KW  - Vandalism
KW  - art book gift
KW  - gift for art lover
KW  - immigrant ghettos
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PROLOGUE --; ECHOES OF THE BORSCHT BELT --; IN THE FRAME --; PHOTOGRAPHS --; NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; BIOGRAPHIES; restricted access
N2  - "A beautiful series of visual compositions designed to evoke the experience of America's early Jewish communities which rose from the immigrant ghettos of New York City to enjoy the mobile lifestyles so popular at the height of the modern era."― NEW YORK HISTORYToday 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 abandoned sites where resorts, hotels, and bungalow colonies once boomed in the Catskill Mountain region of upstate New York. The book assembles images Scheinfeld has shot inside and outside locations that once buzzed with life as year-round havens for generations of people. Some of the structures have been lying abandoned for periods ranging from four to twenty years, depending on the specific hotel or bungalow colony and the conditions under which it closed. Other sites have since been demolished or repurposed, making this book an even more significant documentation of a pivotal era in American Jewish history.The Borscht Belt presents a contemporary view of more than forty hotel and bungalow sites. From entire expanses of abandoned properties to small lots containing drained swimming pools, the remains of the Borscht Belt era now lie forgotten, overgrown, and vacant. In the absence of human activity, nature has reclaimed the sites, having encroached upon or completely overtaken them. Many of the interiors have been vandalized or marked by paintball players and graffiti artists. Each ruin lies radically altered by the elements and effects of time. Scheinfeld’s images record all of these developments
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501707711
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501707711
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501707711/original
ER  -