The Catskills—A Brief History

What did Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers and Wilt Chamberlain have in common? Why did Jews on vacation need so much entertainment? How did the Catskills become the epicenter of Jewish middle-class vacationing and why did it collapse almost as quickly as it began? Who's putting baby in the corner—and why? Hosts Dan Crane and Jessica Chaffin explore the history of the Catskills with documentarians Caroline Laskow and Ian Rosenberg, scholar Eddy Portnoy, and photographer Marisa Scheinfeld.

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The Catskills—A Brief History is an episode from The Kibitz Podcast by The Kibitz Podcast.

This episode is 00:32:00 long.

This episode was published on Oct 31, 2017.

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