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Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Ser.: Jews of Summer : Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America by Sandra Fox (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherStanford University Press

ISBN-101503633888

ISBN-139781503633889

eBay Product ID (ePID)3057263304

Product Key Features

Number of Pages304 Pages

Publication NameJews of Summer : Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America

LanguageEnglish

SubjectUnited States / 20th Century, Children's Studies, Judaism / General, Jewish

Publication Year2023

TypeTextbook

AuthorSandra Fox

Subject AreaReligion, Social Science, History

SeriesStanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight15.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2022-019302

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Reviews" The Jews of Summer is an important contribution to the study of postwar Jewish life. Sandra Fox's engaging and highly readable study of Jewish summer camping offers its fullest and most complex analysis, taking readers into every facet of Jewish camping. An original and essential contribution."--Riv-Ellen Prell, University of Minnesota, " Jews of Summer is particularly effective in tracing the evolution of Jewish summer camps in historical context, in representing the point of view of children and teenagers, and in calling attention to the overlooked history of Yiddish camps. Sandra Fox conveys a sense of optimism that summer camps will continue to be part of an evolving understanding of what is meant by Jewish authenticity."--Cynthia Bernstein, Contemporary Jewry, "[Sandra Fox] does a highly effective job of depicting the camps as incubators of Jewish culture, religious practice, and political attitudes, and of identifying the camps' divergent ideas about how best to sustain Jewish heritage and traditions.... Especially impressive is the author's focus on the campers themselves: the youth cultures they created, and how, through a process of intergenerational negotiation, they forced changes to camp leaders' priorities and pedagogies, especially through resistance to Hebrew and Yiddish immersion."--Steven Mintz, American Historical Review, "The immersive, sensory experiences of my own camp memories fit into the consensus view about the transformative power of Jewish summer camp that is explored in Fox's thematic chapters."--Rachel Gordan, H-Judaic, " The Jews of Summer is an essential and engaging addition to scholarship on Jewish camping. Summer is an appropriate season in which to read it--but any time of year will yield the same rewards."--Emily Schneider, Jewish Book Council, "Though Jewish camping has roots going back to the Progressive Era, it really came into its golden age, along with American Judaism itself, in the postwar era. Jewish summer camp became not just a place to spend a summer, but a place to learn how to be Jewish, as well as an ideological proving ground for the American Jewish future."All of this is wonderfully explored in The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America ."--Rokhl Kafrissen, Tablet, "Well-researched, with some wry photos (e.g., counselor dressed up as David Ben Gurion), this book offers a nostalgic glimpse into a part of American-Jewish history."--Hallie Cantor, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews, "Rare is the book that is scholarly and entertaining, but The Jews of Summer is just that. Transporting the reader into the rhythms and romances of summer camp, Sandra Fox offers a deeply compelling lens into the profound and often generative ambivalences of postwar American Jewish life."--Lila Corwin Berman, Temple University

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal796.5422

Table Of ContentIntroduction: The Jewish Summer Camp: Between Fantasy and Reality 1. "Under Optimum Conditions": American Jews and the Rise of the Summer Camp 2. A Matter of Time: Constructing Camp Life for "Creative Survival" 3. Jews Playing Games: Role-Play, Sociodrama, and Color War 4. "A Little Suffering Goes a Long Way": Tisha B'Av, Ghetto Day, and the Shadow of the Holocaust 5. The Language Cure: Embracing and Evolving Yiddishism and Hebraism 6. "Is This What You Call Being Free?" Power and Youth Culture in the Camper Republic 7. Summer Flings and Fuzzy Rings: Camper Romance, Erotic Zionism, and Intermarriage Anxiety 8. Jewish Camping Post-Postwar Conclusion

SynopsisIn the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish culture, fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the future of Jewish life. Many communal educators and rabbis contended that without educational interventions, Judaism as they understood it would disappear altogether. They pinned their hopes on residential summer camps for Jewish youth: institutions that sprang up across the U.S. in the postwar decades as places for children and teenagers to socialize, recreate, and experience Jewish culture. Adults' fears, hopes, and dreams about the Jewish future inflected every element of camp life, from the languages they taught to what was encouraged romantically and permitted sexually. But adult plans did not constitute everything that occurred at camp: children and teenagers also shaped these sleepaway camps to mirror their own desires and interests and decided whether to accept or resist the ideas and ideologies their camp leaders promoted. Focusing on the lived experience of campers and camp counselors, The Jews of Summer demonstrates how a cultural crisis birthed a rite of passage that remains a significant influence in American Jewish life.

LC Classification NumberBM135.F69 2023