The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America by Sandra Fox synced and Jean with her signature

and Jean with her signature wit and precision

Dmitrii Baltermants

the history of the larger-than-life role of Jews in America’s pastime

a 20-year-old Jewish woman

” —AJL Newsletter

The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America by Sandra Fox synced and Jean with her signatureNational Jewish Book Award Finalist In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish culture, fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the future of Jewish life. Many communal educators and rabbis contended that without educational interventions, Judaism as they understood it would disappear altogether. They pinned their