“It is a unique flame that burns in Catskill, New York.” J. Peter Bergman, Berkshire Edge In its first full season since the onset of the pandemic, one of the region’s most adventurous and innovative small theatre companies came roaring back! Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre got through all of 2022…
CATSKILL – Abe Cahan was an idealistic young man from Vilna (Lithuania) who arrived in America like most immigrants – with big hopes and dreams. He arrived on these shores in 1882 and, after apprenticing at several newspapers, founded The Jewish Daily Forward in 1897. Given the influx of displaced Russians and…
CATSKILL – Thus began letters from immigrants newly arrived in America to The Jewish Daily Forward for more than 60 years. Each writer was asking for help – whether trying to understand the habits of Americans, the complex legal system or the emotional pitfalls of dealing with employers, these newcomers couldn’t cope…
CATSKILL – A Bintel Brief, Yiddish for “a bundle of letters” was the daily advice column which The Jewish Daily Forward ran for 80 years. In it, the newspaper’s wise and sometimes cranky editor dispensed shrewd, practical and fair-minded advice to his readership – newly arrived immigrants questioning how to manage life in this bewildering…
