“In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.”
Kevin Haworth
Famous Drownings in Literary History: Essays on 21st-Century Jewishness
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