Media

Picturing Jewish Vacationland: The Borscht Belt, Then and Now, from the journal Perspectives on History, a publication of the American Historical Association.

The Borscht Belt by Anne Bracegirdle (Photograph Specialist for Christie's), The Jewish Book Council

Liebeserklärung an die Catskills (Declaration of Love to the Catskills), Jüdische Allgemeine

These Photos Of Borscht Belt Ruins Changed My Life, Jewish Daily Forward

The Borscht Belt, Upstater Magazine

Ghosts of the Borscht Belt, Tablet Magazine

The Borscht Belt, DVEIGHT Magazine

Evocative Photographs of Deserted Catskill Resorts, Flavorwire

The Romance Of Catskills Ruins Book Explores Lost Hotels and Summers, The Jewish Week

This Is What The Abandoned Hotels Of The Borscht Belt Look Like Now, Gothamist

Parting Shot, Chronogram Magazine

Silent Retreat, Paper Brigade (Jewish Book Council)

Beautiful Decay in the Borscht Belt, The Jerusalem Post

New book documents ruins of Catskills' resorts, Times Herald Record

Resorts Reborn in Decay, The New York Times

Punch Lines, Reverberating in the Ruins, The New York Times

New book explores the greatest distance - time, WAG Magazine

Kibitzing in God's Country, Jewish Review of Books, by Neal Gabler

Broad Street Review by Anndee Hochman

Marisa Scheinfeld, On Photographing the Borscht Belt, The Cornell University Press Blog

Photographing the End of the Borscht Belt, Newsweek

Weeds in the Borscht Belt and Other Flora, Up Close, The Wall Street Journal

Rediscovering Beauty Amid Ruins of Once Glorious Catskills, Jewish Daily Forward

Brokedown Palace, Jewish Week

This is All That's Left of New York's Once-Thriving Borscht Belt, Slate Magazine

The Ruins of the Borscht Belt, Tablet Magazine

An Interview with Marisa Scheinfeld, Jewish Women's Archive

Parting Shot: Marisa Scheinfeld, Chronogram Magazine

VIDEO/PODCAST/LECTURE:

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Episode #120: Borscht Belt with Marisa Scheinfeld

NYPL presents The Borscht Belt

This illustrated lecture features photographs and history of the Borscht Belt and the abandoned sites where resorts, hotels and bungalow colonies once boomed in the Catskill Mountain region of upstate New York. Recorded on May 17, 2017.

Doin' it with Mike Sacks and Rob: Listen here or below. Interview at 55:19 mark.

Podcast with the Lower East Side History Project

Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland, WAMC Roundtable

Borscht Belt Bacchanal on Arts and Seizures: Heritage Radio Network

Interview on Pawling Public Radio with Louis Inghilterra (17 year old Radio Show Host)

WJFF | Radio Catskills

Podcast, Yiddish Book Center

The Borscht Belt: Past, Present & Future, The Brian Lehrer Show/WNYC

Interview, Joe Donahue Show/WAMC's Roundtable

Interview, The Bill Newman Show

Classic Catskills Special Edition, The Times Herald Record

In this special Classic Catskill, Times Herald-Record executive editor Barry Lewis tours Grossinger's with photographer and author Marisa Scheinfeld, whose new book, "The Borscht Belt" documents the ruins of what was the Catskills, visiting more than 40 deserted hotels and bungalow colonies in Sullivan and Ulster counties.

The Jewish Daily Forward accompanies Marisa to the Borscht Belt. Journalist: Abigail Jones. Videographer: Yermi Brenner

Inside Edition's Steven Fabian (and crew) visits the Borscht Belt with Marisa Scheinfeld. Special appearance by Jackie Horner.

Christian Niedan interviewed photographer Marisa Scheinfeld about her new exhibition "Echoes of the Borscht Belt", opening at Yeshiva University Museum September 10th, 2014