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"Borscht Belt" is a style of Jewish comedy. The actual '''Borscht Belt''' is a region in the Catskill Mountains of [[New York State|upstate New York]] that was a popular resort destination for Jews who were excluded from other resorts. Due to the heavily Ashkenazi ancestry of New York Jews, the area is named for borscht, a type of beet soup popular in Central and Eastern Europe.
The Jewish comedians who performed at these resorts developed a style of humor that became very popular in the entertainment industry. Borscht Belt humor is characterized by stereotypical Jewish traits, such as [[Self-Deprecation]], [[Jews Love to Argue|insults]], [[Jewish Complaining|complaints]], hypochondria, wordplay and liberal use of [[Yiddish as a Second Language|Yiddish]].
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* Estelle Getty
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=== Works featuring Borscht Belt comedy or characters include
== Film ==
* ''[[Coming to America]]'' features Eddie Murphy performing as an old New York Jew who tells a classic Borscht Belt joke: An old Jew asks a waiter to taste his soup, refusing to elaborate further. The waiter finally agrees to taste it and asks where the spoon is. The Jew smiles and says, "Ah ''ha!''"
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