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A museum exhibit on Jewish food and humor puts the ‘borscht’ in Borscht Belt

JL;DR SUMMARY The exhibit at the Borscht Belt Museum in Ellenville, New York, showcases the rich cultural legacy of the Catskills resorts where Jewish cuisine and humor thrived from the early 20th century to the 1970s. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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