It Happened in the Catskills
(March 2009)
An Oral History in the Words of Busboys, Bellhops, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians, Agents, and Others Who Lived It Myrna Katz Frommer - Author Harvey Frommer - Author
A collective memoir of the “Borscht Belt.”
A collective memoir of the famed “Borscht Belt,” that fabled summer resort area “just ninety minutes from Broadway,” It Happened in the Catskills melds side-splitting humor and tender nostalgia into an evocative look at the Americanization of New York’s Eastern European Jewish population and the impact of Jewish culture ...(Read More)
It Happened in Brooklyn
(March 2009)
An Oral History of Growing Up in the Borough in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s Myrna Katz Frommer - Author Harvey Frommer - Author
Over one hundred voices recall, chronicle, and celebrate the Brooklyn of legend.
It Happened in Brooklyn tells the story of mid-century Brooklyn, home of the famed Brooklyn Dodgers, Nathan’s franks, stoop-ball, stickball, and some of the best high schools in America. In this spirited recollection, more than one hundred voices chronicle and celebrate, in tones both humorous and poignant, the borough as i...(Read More)
