A Summer World

by Stefan Kanfer

Overview

A Summer World charts the incredible rise and precipitous fall of the Catskill resorts, from the pre-revolutionary period to the great days of the Borscht Belt.

Chronicles the attempt to build a jewish Eden in the Catskills, from the days of the ghetto to the rise and decline of the great resorts.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150391833
Publisher:	Sumner Books
Publication date:	08/12/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	595 KB

About the Author

Stefan Kanfer is the author of fifteen books, including the bestselling biographies of show business icons: Groucho; Ball of Fire (Lucille Ball); Somebody (Marlon Brando); and Tough Without a Gun (Humphrey Bogart.) He has also written many social histories, among them The Last Empire, about the De Beers diamond company, and Stardust Lost, an account of the rise and fall of the Yiddish Theater in New York. Kanfer also wrote two novels about World War II, and served as the only journalist on the President's Commission on the Holocaust. He was the first by-lined cinema critic for Time magazine, where he worked as writer and editor for more than two decades. He has been given many writing awards and was named a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. He lives in New York. Visit Stefan�s website at