Virtual Book Talk with David Gold Online
David M. Gold. Attorney, Professor, and author discusses his book: Real Catskill Jews: Memories of Small-Town Life in Twentieth-Century America’.
There are books, articles, and films galore about the twentieth-century Jewish resorts of the Catskills, but the Jewish experience in that region embraced so much more. This volume presents the firsthand stories of “real Catskill Jews,” not transient summer vacationers, waiters, or entertainers but people who lived in the Catskills and built permanent communities. The individuals interviewed here talk about Jewish settlement in the Catskills, Hebrew school, religious observance, relations with gentile neighbors, and the importance of Israel. They also preserve memories of small-town life more broadly, memories of one-room schoolhouses and classrooms over the movie theater, of constables and slot machines, of the corner drugstore, the volunteer fire department, and the train. No book about Jews in the Catskills can ignore the resorts, but in this book we see them through the eyes of the locals. The interviews presented here are unique. Nowhere else can one find so full a record of the “real Catskill Jews.”
Registration is Required for this Virtual program. Registration will close 30 mins before the program begins.
- Date:
- Thursday, April 28, 2022
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- ZOOM-Virtual
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Adult Program