A Place of Our Own: The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping in America (Judaic Studies) - Softcover

Cohen, Judah M.; Gamoran, Hillel; Kaye, Gerard W.; Sarna, Jonathan D.; Splansky, Donald M.; Zeldin, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817352937 ISBN 13: 9780817352936

Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Reform Judaism is not the only religious group 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 seven essays, which commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the first Reform Jewish educational camp in the United States (Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute [OSRUI], in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin) cover a wide range of topics related to both the Reform Judaism movement and the development of the Reform Jewish camping system in the United States. Donald M. Splansky's chapter on 'Prayer at Reform Jewish Camps' documents changes in prayer services that took place both at OSRUI and in the Reform movement in general; Michael Zeldin's 'Making the Magic in Reform Jewish Summer Camps' describes the educational philosophies employed at many camps and analyzes their effectiveness; and Jonathan D. Sarna's 'The Crucial Decade in Jewish Camping' explains how social, political, and cultural conditions paved the way for the Reform camping movement.

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Michael M. Lorge is an attorney with Laser, Pokorny, Schwartz, Friedman & Economos in Chicago, Illinois. He is a member of the national board of the Union for Reform Judaism and a vice-chari of its national camping commission. He has lectured and written extensively on both legal and Jewish issues.

 

Gary P. Zola is Executive Director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and Associate Professor of the American Jewish Experience at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The University of Alabama Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0817352937
• ISBN 13: 9780817352936
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
• Herausgeber: Lorge Michael M., Zola Gary P.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande