This week, we are joined by Riv-Ellen Prell, a professor at the University of Minnesota, to talk about Jewish summer camping in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. Riv-Ellen discusses how the activities at these summer camps—from religious practice to outdoor adventuring—were geared toward creating a new kind of Jewish identity in the post-war period.

Episode 0146

May 5, 2017

Yiddish Book Center

Amherst, Massachusetts