Dick Capri, Catskills Comic Who Took His Shtick to Broadway, Dies at 93
He was a regular at the mountain resorts where many comedians honed their acts, then had a star turn in the long-running ...
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How Jewish comedians are helping keep hope alive post-October 7
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 ...
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Creating Jewish comedy in a post-October 7 world with Elon Gold - opinion
American-Jewish stand-up comedian and actor Elon Gold ... The only place we ever colonized was the Catskills. My zayde was a bungalow colonizer.’ And it’s like, just to expose that lie ...
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Jewish comedians aim to deflate modern anti-Semitism with laughs
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 ...
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The Borscht Belt Festival, honoring the Jewish Catskills, is bigger and broader this year
“Comedians are kind of this well-trod territory ... The Lasting Legacy of the Jewish Catskills,” taught by our very own Andrew Silow-Carroll beginning Tues., August 20.
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The Catskills
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 ...