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Serious Fun at a Jewish Community Summer Camp - Family, Judaism, and Israel (Hardcover)
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Serious Fun at a Jewish Community Summer Camp - Family, Judaism, and Israel (Hardcover)
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Unique in the literature on Jewish camping, this book provides an
in-depth study of a community-based, residential summer camp that
serves Jewish children from primarily rural areas. Focused on Camp
Ben Frankel (CBF), established in 1950 in southern Illinois, this
book focuses on how a pluralist Jewish camp constructs meaningful
experiences of Jewish "family" and Judaism for campers-and teaches
them about Israel. Inspired by models of the earliest camps
established for Jewish children in urban areas, CBF's founders
worked to create a camp that would appeal to the rural, often
isolated Jewish families in its catchment area. Although seemingly
on the periphery of American Jewish life, CBF staff and campers are
revealed to be deeply entwined with national developments in Jewish
culture and practice and, indeed, contributors to shaping them.
This research highlights the importance of campers' experiences of
traditional elements of the Jewish "family" (an experience
increasingly limited to time at camp), as well as the overarching
importance of song. Over the years, Judaism becomes constructed as
fun, welcoming, and easy for campers, while Israel is presented in
ways that are meant to be appropriate for a community camp. In the
camp's earliest decades, Israel was framed by "traditional" Zionist
discourse; later, as community priorities shifted, the cause of
Russian Jews was the focus. Most recently, as Israeli politics have
been increasingly viewed as potentially divisive, the camp has
adopted an "Israel-lite" approach, focusing on Israel as the
Biblical homeland of the Jewish people and a place home to Jews who
are similar to American Jews. In sum, this study sheds light on how
a small, rural, community camp contributes in significant ways to
our understanding of American Jews, their Judaism, and their
Zionism.
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