Marisa Scheinfeld: The Borscht Belt
Artist Marisa Scheinfeld will present her recent publication, The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland.
Today the Borscht Belt in upstate New York is often recalled through the nostalgic lens of summer swims, Saturday night dances, and comedy performances. But its current state is nothing like its earlier status. Forgotten about and exhausted, much of its structural environment has been left to decay.
Features essays by Stefan Kanfer and Jenna Weissman Joselit and presents Marisa Scheinfeld’s photographs of abandoned sites where resorts, hotels, and bungalow colonies once boomed in the Catskill Mountain region of upstate New York. The book assembles images Scheinfeld has shot inside and outside locations that once buzzed with life as year-round havens for generations of people.