Through fiction, memoir, music, photography, and art, In the Catskills
highlights the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its
continuing impact on American music, comedy, food, culture, and
religion. It features selections from such fiction writers as Isaac
Bashevis Singer, Herman Wouk, Allegra Goodman and Vivian Gornick; and
original contributions from historians, sociologists, and scholars of
American and Jewish culture that trace the history of the region, the
rise of hotels and bungalow colonies, the wonderful flavors of food and
entertainment, and distinctive forms of Jewish religion found in the
Mountains.