When I read Jackie Mason’s obituary in the New York Times (“Jackie Mason, 93 Dies; Turned Kvetching Into Comedy Gold,” July 24, 2021), I felt an emotional pang for the lost days of upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains and the long-ago disappeared comedy routines and closeness of the borscht belt vacation resorts there. Mason was one of many Jewish More

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