Summer camp and Jewish culture in postwar America
In the decades after World War II, American Jewish leaders debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish culture, fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the future of Jewish life. They put their hopes on residential summer camps for Jewish children and teens — those camps remain a significant influence in Jewish life today.
The camps sprang up across the United States as places for children and teens to socialize, recreate, and experience Jewish culture.
Sandra Fox, the Goldstein-Goren visiting assistant professor of American Jewish history at New York University, will discuss her new book, “The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America,” on Monday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m., at the Douglass Student Center in New Brunswick.
The lecture is presented by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University and made possible through support from the Toby and Herbert Stolzer Program Fund. Advance registration is required, at BildnerCenter.Rutgers.edu. Free on-campus parking is available.
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