If there’s one joke that might sum up the Catskills experience — the buckle on the Borscht comedy Belt — it’s the oldie but goodie that dates back nearly 100 years, attributed to ...

BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — It was a place where families could make new friends, hear up-and-coming comedians, eat kosher food, and engage in recreational activities. The vacation resorts in the ...

two families whose hotels laid the groundwork for a business booming Catskills. As Jerry Lewis observes in the film, the Borscht Belt was a place that offered freedom of expression for young ...

This famous resort town launched a classic 20th-century Jewish phenomenon: vacationing in the Catskill Mountains, the so-called Borscht Belt that is indelibly linked with American Jewish popular ...

The 'Borscht Belt' refers to the many hotels and guest houses, situated in the Catskills Mountains on America's East Coast, which developed into a major holiday resort area for Jewish New Yorkers ...

The very next day, Patrick was headed for Ed Fondiller’s Total Tennis camp Saugerties, N.Y. – that’s upstate, in the rural eastern Catskills, the rugged land that inspired the important ...

Not all ghost towns are from the Old West, and the reasons vary why a popular tourist destination might become abandoned.

Between the 1920s and 1960s, the Catskills dubbed the "Borscht Belt," welcomed Jewish families (who weren't accepted at other resorts across the country) for weeks of summertime entertainment at ...

Grossinger's Resort, another Borscht Belt hotspot, was once known as the "Waldorf in the Catskills." At its peak, Grossinger's had 150,000 visitors every year and hosted entertainers such as Eddie ...

The Catskills is a humorous and nostalgic tribute to what became affectionately known as the Borscht Belt. Stand-up comedians share their best shtick while former waiters, entertainers ...