This was the first of three programs in the HMTC Series, “The Catskills on the Big and Small Screen,” which explored depictions of the Catskills when it served as the summer retreat for Yiddish-speaking and other Jewish residents of the New York City area. In this first program, HMTC screened an episode of the award-winning series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel where Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan), recently divorced, heads with her parents (Tony Shalhoub and Marin Hinkle) to the Catskills for their annual month-long summer vacation. After the screening, Dr. Linda Burghardt, HMTC’s Scholar-in-Residence, provided comments about the accuracy of the depiction and answered questions about Catskills and its image in popular memory.
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