The Borscht Belt was a predominantly Jewish American vacation destination located 90 miles from New York City in Sullivan and Ulster Counties. It offered its visitors leisure, entertainment and ...

Photographer Marisa Scheinfeld grew up in the "Borscht Belt," a ritzy Jewish resort haven in New York. Many of the establishments have gone out of business and become abandoned buildings.

Andrew Jacobs, the Co-president of the museum's board of directors is seen through a hole in one of the rooms of the future Catskill's Borscht Belt Museum in Ellenville, N.Y.The building was once ...

A series of stunning photos captured after dark bring nightlife back to abandoned resorts of the Borscht Belt in New York's Catskills region!

Marisa Schienfeld's book The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland shows eerie images of what the Catskills Mountains, New York resort looks like now.

A new exhibition of Scheinfeld’s huge photos – along with a trove of original souvenirs and objects from Borscht Belt hotels – continues at New York’s Yeshiva University Museum (15 W. 16th ...

The exhibit, which features 21 large-scale photos plus a few cases of Catskills ephemera (a Concord ski hat, Grossinger's stationery, postcards and room keys), takes you through the hotels as ...

The area was colloquially known as the Borscht Belt because of the large number of Jewish vacationers who frequented the area. (The hotel in Dirty Dancing was modeled after a real-life Catskills ...