“The Mountains” will also show how the Borscht Belt wasn’t just an escape from the punishing heat of summer in the city — it ...

The second annual Borscht Belt Fest, featuring comedy, food, music and storytelling, will take place July 26-28 in the Catskills. Organized by the Borscht Belt Museum in Ellenville, New York, this ...

The Mountains” is a scripted series about Jennie and Elaine Grossinger, the “formidable matriarchs” who transformed the ...

If the thermometer-shattering temperatures and sweltering sun weren’t proof enough, pleasant spring days are long gone. But ...

A major star in the upstate New York constellation of recreation that was the Borscht Belt, Grossinger’s also served as inspiration for the hit movie “Dirty Dancing” (1987).

Scheinfeld’s book ‘The Borscht Belt’ documented the decaying resorts around her hometown. Photo by Marisa Scheinfeld. In 2021, Scheinfeld secured funding for a series of markers like the one ...

The Borscht Belt Fest seemed kitschy, quirky and most definitely from a bygone era. But Kauffman insists that the planned museum can hand down memories of that era to future generations.

After a ceremony on Wednesday, the vaguely colonial brick building was on the way to becoming the Catskills Borscht Belt Museum, with help from Frishman, a 71-year-old plumber who doubles as the ...

The Borscht Belt was sort of a three-county area of the Catskills; Orange, Ulster and Sullivan County that drew over the over the summer months of more than a million people, many of them Jews ...

The Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project was created by Marisa Scheinfeld, an author and photographer who was born in Brooklyn and raised in the Catskills. In 2021, ...

The Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project hopes to remind future generations of its storied past. NOTE: A third Borscht Belt Historical Marker installation will take place on Sunday, August 20 at ...

Beloved Borscht Belt comic and actor Freddie Roman, best known for his roasts as part of New York City’s Friars Club and later Comedy Central, died at the age of 85 on Saturday, his family said.