Antedating of "Borscht Belt"

[Shapiro, Fred]

I am unable to improve upon the year of first use in Jon's magnificent HDAS.  ProQuest does show "borscht circuit" appearing slightly earlier in the year (Variety, July 29, page 1).

Fred Shapiro



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HDAS has "Borscht Circuit" from '36.

JL


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:

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> borscht belt (OED 1940)
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> 1937 _Variety_ 2 June 47 (Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive)  With
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> e injection of class into the borscht belt's entertainment end, there has
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> ome also the elimination to some extent of the petty rackets practiced by
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> he agents who dominated this field for so long.
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