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From the Catskills with Love
January 12, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Film historians Irv Slifkin and Laurence Lerman of FilmShul are back in January with another exciting talk on Zoom! This one is: “From the Catskills with Love”!
The now mostly shuttered summer resorts of Southeastern New York’s Catskill Mountains—Grossinger’s, Kutsher’s, the Raleigh, the Concord, the Pines and others—provided the formative years for many prominent Jewish comedy stars for a number of decades up through the 1970s. Discover the origins of the region that came to be known as the Borscht Belt and how such youngsters as Woody Allen, Shelley Berman, Totie Fields, Milton Berle, Jack E. Leonard, Joan Rivers, Jerry Lewis, Betty Garrett, Danny Kaye and Myron Cohen left their audiences in stitches. Plus, we take a look at the movies inspired by the “Jewish Alps.”
Please contact Justin at 713-782-4162 or Justin@hcrj.org to participate.
Pictured top to bottom: Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel in 1976 and The Raleigh Hotel in 1978.