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Archive Home > 2012 > April > 17 > Lou Goldstein made a career as a tummler in the Catskills

Lou Goldstein made a career as a tummler in the Catskills

By Joseph Berger / The Bulletin
April 17, 2012

Lou Goldstein was the consummate tummler, one of a zany species of entertainer who kept them laughing, or tried to, long ago in the borscht belt hotels of the Catskills.

A tummler — the job title comes from a Yiddish word for someone who stirs up tumult or excitement — was a....

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