The Jewish Exponent

Fire Destroys Building at Grossinger’s, the Inspiration for ‘Dirty Dancing’

(New York Jewish Week) — An abandoned building on the site of the late Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel was consumed by a fire, the Liberty, N.Y. Fire Department reported on Facebook. The resort, ...
The Forward

Grossinger’s iconic rye bread rises again — and won’t require a Catskills trip to obtain

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. (New York Jewish ...
The New York Times

The Borscht Belt Is History. Now It Will Have a Museum.

A former bank building in Ellenville, N.Y., will house objects from resort hotels like Grossinger’s that were nestled in the Catskill Mountains. By James Barron Good morning. We’ll look at a museum in ...
Gothamist

Abandoned NY: Inside Grossinger's Crumbling Catskill Resort Hotel

LIBERTY, NY: Grossinger's has everything for the type of person who likes to come to Grossinger's! So went the motto of Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel, a lush weekend getaway just two hours ...
The Washington Post

A composer's family history, in the key of 'Trees'

Although the bare outlines of his early life are echoed in a gazillion tales of postwar America -- Bronx Jewish family in search of better things moves to squarely middle-class Long Island -- few of ...
insider.si.edu

You never call! you never write! : a history of the Jewish mother / Joyce Antler

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- [pt. 1]. The nagging sterotype -- 1. "My Yiddishe mama" : the multiple faces of the immigrant Jewish mother -- 2. Molly Goldberg : "the prototype of the Jewish ...
Sun Sentinel

Grossinger’s iconic rye bread rises again — and won’t require a Catskills trip to obtain

(New York Jewish Week) — A forthcoming scripted TV show about Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel is getting a product tie-in aimed at igniting appetites among fans of the famed Borscht Belt retreat.