Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt ()

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Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt
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Title:Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt ()
Release: 1986-09-14
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Country: United States of America
Language: English
Runtime: 81 min.
Genre: Documentary
Stars: Joseph Wiseman
Plot Summary
At its peak, one million New York Jews spent their summers in the Borscht Belt, the birthplace of Jewish-American iconoclastic humor. This film shows how these Catskills communities were run by women, and how class divisions were reflected in the resort hotels: upwardly-mobile hotel guests were entertained by a who's-who of talent, while in the bungalows, do-it-yourself burlesque and vaudeville reigned among the blue-collar families. This film is happy, humane, ironic, and, finally, bittersweet, as we see that today's Jews no longer share the tastes or aspirations of their parents.
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