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Sunday, December 06, 2020

Poconos resort advertised in 1906: "Free from Hebrews and Tuberculosis Patients""

From the New York Times, June 18, 1906:


According to an cademic paper on the Pocono resort economy 1865-1940,

In the 1930s, anti-Semitism became more pronounced with many places noting their Christian-only policy. According to ads in the Lackawanna booklets, twenty-three resorts were "restricted" in 1939, double the figure for 1933. In fact, the real number of "restricted" places was higher, because some were less blatant in their bias. A former employee of a resort that did not openly discriminate told the author of an unofficial quota for Jews. 





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