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Article Excerpt
A Place of Our Own: The Rise of Jewish Camping. Edited by Michael M. Lorge and Gary P. Zola. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 228 pp.
Jewish camping has long been identified as one of the most successful methods for imbuing and strengthening Jewish identity. The blend of emotional and intellectual stimulation, the independence, the outdoors, and the sense of experiential Jewish living has helped promote the Jewish camping experience as a remedy to stultified, institutional associations that so many have of Jewish life today. It is a wonder that, with the success of camping, the movement in America is only abut 120 years old; Jewish camping surfaced only slightly later with Camp Lehman, founded in 1893. A Place of Our Own tells the fascinating story of American Jewish camping as an emergent trend in the early twentieth century, both as a critical response to the industrialization of America and as a way to acculturate a largely...
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