SUNY Press Catalog - Spring 2009 - (Page 12) excelsior editions PANTONE 608C PANTONE Black 3C Typeface: Gill Sans PANTONE 4745C PANTONE Black 2C Typeface: Gill Sans e e IT HAPPENED IN BROOKLYN An Oral History of Growing up in the Borough in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer Over one hundred voices recall, chronicle, and celebrate the Brooklyn of legend. It Happened in Brooklyn tells the story of mid-century Brooklyn, home of the famed Brooklyn Dodgers, Nathan’s franks, stoop-ball, stickball, and some of the best high schools in America. In this spirited recollection, more than one hundred voices chronicle and celebrate, in tones both humorous and poignant, the borough as it once was: a largely working- and lower-middleclass environment bathed in the optimistic glow of the postwar years. Illustrated with period photographs. “Throbs with life and affection.” — Publishers Weekly IT HAPPENED IN THE CATSKILLS An Oral History in the Words of Busboys, Bellhops, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians, Agents, and Others Who Lived It Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer A collective memoir of the “Borscht Belt.” A collective memoir of the famed “Borscht Belt,” that fabled summer resort area “just ninety minutes from Broadway,” It Happened in the Catskills melds side-splitting humor and tender nostalgia into an evocative look at the Americanization of New York’s Eastern European Jewish population and the impact of Jewish culture on the larger American scene. More than a hundred Catskill veterans reveal through their recollections an experience that now exists only in memory. Illustrated throughout with period photographs. “The truth about the Catskills—unexpurgated tales of heartache and laughter. This book will touch all who read it.” — Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara MARCH 272 pp • Trim size: 8 x 10 • 171 b/w photographs $24.95/T pb 978-1-4384-2748-5 Sales restricted to North America NEW yORK • HISTORy e e www.sunypress.edu MARCH 280 pp • Trim size: 8 x 10 • 327 b/w photographs $24.95/T pb 978-1-4384-2750-8 NEW yORK • HISTORy Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer are the authors of many works of oral history, including It Happened on Broadway and Growing Up Jewish in America. They both teach at Dartmouth College, and they live in Lyme, New Hampshire. http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61872 http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61871 http://www.sunypress.edu
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