Marisa Scheinfeld
By Marisa Scheinfeld
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Culture These Photos Of Borscht Belt Ruins Changed My Life
I grew up in the “mountains,” or as others called it “the country.” Throughout my entire life, family, friends and neighbors uttered these words as if no other mountains or country existed anywhere else in the wide world. Five years ago when I began working on “The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s Jewish…
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Slideshows The Ruins of the Borscht Belt
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