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When the Catskills Spoke Yiddish
When the Catskills Spoke Yiddish
Kultur Mercado
The Catskills made a big impression on readers of “The Forverts,” the Jewish immigrant community’s Yiddish paper of record. Each summer, subscribers jammed the newspaper’s switchboards to ensure their beloved daily was delivered to their Borscht Belt boarding houses, bungalow colonies, and resorts. Loaded with classified ads for Catskills farmland, boarding houses, hotels, and even […]
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