An entertaining ethnographic study of how Jewish summer camps foster Jewish sensibilities and education.

"Early in the 20th century, Jewish camp leaders had little interest in creating spiritual experiences for their campers. Yet Jewish camps have gradually provide

This is a collection of seven essays, which commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the first Reform Jewish educational camp in the US. The text cov

In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish cul

The story of the attempt to build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills, from the days of the ghetto to the rise and decline of the great resorts.