The Borscht Belt was a well-known resort destination for hundreds of thousands of American Jews from the 1920s to the early 1970s.
Eventually, the resorts in New York’s Catskill Mountains began a gradual demise due to many factors — including the growth of suburbia, inexpensive airfare and generational changes.
A new photo exhibit at the Florida Holocaust Museum tells the story of the former Jewish resorts. Marisa Scheinfel’s The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish Vacationland is on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg through May 31…