Dear Friends and Colleagues, *Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust, and the Literary Imagination <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/jewish-studies-books/summer-haven-the-catskills-the-holocaust-and-the-literary-imagination>* edited by Holli Levitsky & Phil Brown has been published by Academic Studies Press.
[image: 9781618114181.jpg] Series: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/borderlines-russian-and-east-european-jewish-studies> ISBN: 9781618114181 (hardcover) Pages: 416 pp.; 25 b&w illus. Price: $69.00 USD Publication Date: September 2015 *Summary: *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 Europe. It also examines the character of Holocaust survivors in the Catskills: in what ways did people find connection, resolution to conflict, and avenues to come together despite the experiences that set them apart? The book will be useful to those studying Jewish, American, or New York history, the Holocaust and Catskills legacy, United States immigration, American literature, and American culture. The focus on themes of nostalgia, humor, loss, and sexuality will draw general readers as well. *Contributors:* Michael Berenbaum, Joseph Berger, Gloria Boris, Martin Boris, Rita Calderon, Ezra Cappell, Sandor Goodhart, Jake Ehrenreich, Bonnie Shusterman Eizikovitz, Hilene Flanzbaum, Andrew Jacobs, Harvey Jacobs, Michael Kirschenbaum, Eileen Pollack, Naima Prevots, Thane Rosenbaum, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Art Spiegelman, Reuben Wallenrod *Praise:* “Evoking times of great pleasure interwoven with fear and mourning, this rich collection of fiction, essays, memoirs, and inter-generational reflections shows that the Catskills, a holiday refuge, was still intimately connected to the Holocaust. Summer Haven sets the sharply rendered details of local history in a vital international context.” — Eric J. Sundquist, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University, author of* Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America* For more information, please visit the title's dedicated page at Academic Studies Press here <http://www.academicstudiespress.com/jewish-studies-books/summer-haven-the-catskills-the-holocaust-and-the-literary-imagination> . 30% off with promotional code *Catskills30 *at checkout. Kind regards, Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135 T: +1 (617) 782 6290 www.academicstudiespress.com
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