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Fiction and Non-fiction Writing Contests: The Catskills and the Holocaust.
These two contests are part of a book project, Summer Haven: How the Catskills Experienced the
Holocaust, edited by Dr. Holli Levitsky, Professor of English and
Director of Jewish Studies at Loyola Marymount University, and Dr.
Phil Brown, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at Brown
University, which will provide a locus for literature exploring the
experience of the Holocaust in the Catskills.
The contest is sponsored by the Catskills Institute, Jewish Book
Council, the “1939” Club, the Sigi Ziering Institute at American
Jewish University, Brown University Judaic Studies Program, the Jewish
Studies Program at Loyola Marymount University, the Jewish American
and Holocaust Literature Symposium, AskAbigail.com, and the Four
Seasons Lodge film group.
Submissions are due July 1, 2012. The contest will be judged by a
panel of eminent writers in the field of Jewish literature and
scholarship. On Sept.1, the judges’ decision will be announced. The
winners will receive $500 and up to $500 in travel costs to present the
winning entries at the Jewish American and Holocaust Literature
Symposium in Miami, Florida November 11-13, 2012. The winning entries will also
be published in the Levitsky and Brown book.
See Fiction and Non-Fiction Guidelines for further details.
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Welcome to the new Catskills Institute website. We are very grateful to
Brown University for its wonderful support through the Scholarly
Technology Group and the Center for Digital Scholarship. Elli Mylonas,
Ann Caldwell, Robin Ness, and Kerri Hicks spent countless hours
developing this new archive and its website. Thousands of items from
the Catskills Institute Archives have been scanned in at high
resolution, and accompanying metadata provides much useful background
information. You can now search for all sort of materials by hotel or
bungalow colony name, by type of object (e.g. menu, postcard,
stationery), or by thumbnail. We are proud to now feature a whole
section devoted to the beautiful postcard artistry of Alfred Landis. The
bulletin board has an automatic posting mechanism for your queries.
Please spend some time and enjoy this new archive/website that preserves
the glorious legacy of the Jewish Catskills.
