Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt (1985)

At its peak one million New York Jews spent their summers in the Borscht Belt the birthplace of JewishAmerican iconoclastic humor This film shows how these Catskills communities were run by women and how class divisions were reflected in the resort hotels upwardlymobile hotel guests were entertained by a whoswho of talent while in the bungalows doityourself burlesque and vaudeville reigned among the bluecollar families This film is happy humane ironic and finally bittersweet as we see that todays Jews no longer share the tastes or aspirations of their parents