7 - The Borscht Belt

History of the Catskills and Borscht Belt comedy. 

+ Last of the Mohicans
+ Growing up in Liberty, NY
+ The difference between Borscht Belt humour and observational comedy
+ The gendered implications of telling a dirty joke  

Works used and mentioned:

• Red Nation podcast episode about Last of the Mohicans
• The Catskills; from wilderness to Woodstock by Alf Evers
• The Catskills: its history and how it changed America by Stephen Silverman and Raphael D. Silver
• In the Catskills: a century of Jewish experience in the mountains edited by Phil Brown
• It happened in the Catskills: an oral history in the words of busboys, bellhops, guests, proprietors, comedians, agents, and other who lived it edited by Myrna Frommer and Harvey Frommer
• When comedy went to school directed by Ron Frank & Mevlut Akkaya
• Bible of Dirty Jokes by Eileen Pollack

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