What happened to the Borscht Belt?

What happened to the Borscht Belt?

May 15, 2012 News

Food, fun, dancing, celebrities, comedians. Grossinger’s and the Concord. Bring back any memories?

The mostly defunct summer resorts of New York’s Catskill Mountains were popular vacation spots for Jews from the 1920s up to the 1960s. Anyone longing for the good old days knows the historical importance of these lost times—summer romances, doing the mambo, menus with seven kinds of herring, and comedians who would go on to become world famous.

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