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| THE CATSKILLS New York's Catskill Mountains were once known as the Jewish Alps. Dotting the mountains were family-run resorts catering to a mostly Jewish clientele–offering Jewish food, Jewish humor, and other Jewish guests with whom to socialize. For Jews–increasingly successful though not entirely at ease or welcome in gentile establishments–it was the obvious vacation spot: a place to relax from the stresses of city life while appreciating their substantial accomplishments with others like themselves. For young people, the Catskills were often the setting of romance and sometimes for rebellion. These films, all made long afer the periods they chronicle, look at four decades of the Catskills and Jewish life in America. They take a sometimes nostalgic, sometimes socially penetrating look at a unique and memorable slice of Jewish-American life.
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