The 13-hour, seven-session program features academics and comedians exploring topics ranging from the roots of Jewish humor in Eastern Europe to the Catskills and Borscht Belt comic resorts of ...

Over the past couple of decades the few remaining Jewish ... and comedians from the city are making the two-hour drive up from New York to coax laughs out of overfed Jews. The Catskills culture ...

While philosophers and historians have long debated the persistence of anti-Jewish stereotypes ... he shpritzes jokes like one of the old Catskills comedians.” Modi also had a career as a ...

The Catskills is a humorous and nostalgic tribute to what became affectionately known as the Borscht Belt. Stand-up comedians share ... provides an overview of Jewish immigration to New York ...