The article overplays the Jewish victimhood angle. The Catskills were not certainly not just a place for Jews, and the area had many more than just Jewish kids working there, and certainly more than few gentiles spent vacation time there as well - in both winter and summer. Its probably rather a story of how nearly the whole of Upstate NY has turned into Appalachia thanks to decades of “progressive” government.
Then again, deconstructing history along purely racial lines is a very trendy “academic” them these days.
I respect your viewpoint, but in my day, living in Connecticut (60’s + 70’s), the Catskills were referred to as “The Jewish Alps”, by both Jews, and Gentiles, alike ;)
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The Catskills, as in the hotel industry of the Catskills, was overwhelmingly Jewish. It came into being because Jews were barred from other places in the area.