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The history of educational summer camps in American Reform Judaism. Reform Judaism is not the only religious community in America to make the summer camp experience a vital part of a faith community's effort to impart its values and beliefs to its adolescents, but perhaps no group relied more on summer camp as an adjunct to home and community for this purpose. Summer camp became an important part of Reform group identity, a bulwark against the attraction of assimilation into the greater society and mere nominal Judaism. These essays, which commemorate the fiftieth anniversary

Title A place of our own [electronic resource] : the rise of Reform Jewish camping : essays honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute, Union for Reform Judaism, in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin / edited by Michael M. Lorge and Gary P. Zola.
Publisher Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press
Creation Date c2006
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Jewish camping and its relationship to the organized camping movement in America / Gary P. Zola -- The crucial decade in Jewish camping / Jonathan D. Sarna -- The beginnings of Union Institute in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 1952-1970 : creation and coalescence of the first UAHC camp / Michael M. Lorge and Gary P. Zola -- Making the magic in Reform Jewish summer camps / Michael Zeldin -- The road to chalutzim : Reform Judaism's Hebrew-speaking program / Hillel Gamoran -- Creating a prayer experience in Reform movement camps and beyond / Donald M. Splansky -- Singing out for Judaism : a history of song leaders and song leading at Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute / Judah M. Cohen -- Postscript : Reflections on Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute / Gerard W. Kaye.
Series Judaic studies series
Extent 1 online resource (241 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010713664305171
MARC RECORDS
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