The Jews of summer : summer camp and Jewish culture in postwar America /
"In 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 cont...
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Язык: | английский |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2023]
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| Серии: | Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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| Online-ссылка: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3442671 |
Оглавление:
- Introduction : the Jewish camp : between fantasy and reality
- "Under optimum conditions" : American Jews and the rise of the summer camp
- A matter of time : constructing time for "creative survival"
- Jews playing games : role-play, sociodrama, and color war
- "A little suffering goes a long way" : Tisha B'Av, Ghetto Day, and the shadow of the Holocaust
- The language cure : embracing and evolving Yiddishism and Hebraism
- "Is this what you call being free?" : power and youth culture in the camper republic
- Summer flings and fuzzy rings : camper romance, erotic Zionism, and intermarriage anxiety
- Jewish camping post-postwar.