Have you been watching the Olympics? Have you been wondering who was the first American Jew to earn Olympic medals in a Nordic sport? Or how and where most American Jews learned to ski and skate and play tennis and golf? Not at the country clubs and resorts that banned them! Tune in to the latest episode of my podcast MAYBE IT’S ME and learn about the role that Borscht Belt hotels such as Grossinger’s played in teaching immigrant Jews the skills they would need to become, well, American.
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