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 dies-to-bring-dr-sandra-fox-via-zoom/
SUMMARY:YINR - Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies to Bring Dr. Sandra
 Fox via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Women’s Initiative for Jewish Studies (WIJS) at Young Israel
 of New Rochelle is proud to present Dr. Sandra Fox on Wednesday\, September
 18\, 2024 @ 8:15 pm (ET) on Zoom.  Fox will be the first speaker of the
 2024-2025 season in the monthly scholarly programming offered by WIJS at
 YINR.\n\nDr. Fox will speak on the topic “The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp
 and Jewish Culture in Postwar America.”  How did the residential summer
 camp become an integral part of American Jewish life?  Is there something
 special about the relationship between Jews and camp?  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 intervention\, Judaism as they understood it would disappear
 altogether. They pinned their hopes on residential summer camps for Jewish
 youth\, institutions that sprang up across the U.S. as places for children
 and teenagers to socialize\, recreate\, and experience Jewish culture.
  Adults' fears\, hopes\, and dreams about the Jewish future inflected
 every element of camp life\, from the languages they taught to what was
 encouraged romantically and permitted sexually.  But adult plans did not
 constitute everything that occurred at camp: children and teenagers also
 shaped these sleepaway camps to mirror their own desires and interests and
 decided whether to accept or resist the ideas and ideologies their camp
 leaders promoted.  In this lecture\, Sandra Fox explains how a sense of
 cultural crisis birthed a rite of passage for Jewish children across the
 country.\n\nSandra Fox is a visiting Assistant Professor of American Jewish
 History and Yiddish Studies at New York University\, and director of the
 Archive of the American Jewish Left in the Digital Age. She received her
 PhD from New York University.  Her book\, The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp
 and Jewish Culture in Postwar America (Stanford University Press\, 2023)
 addresses the experiences of youth in postwar Jewish summer camps and the
 place of intergenerational negotiation in the making of American Jewish
 culture.  In addition to her research\, Sandra is the founder and
 executive producer of the Yiddish-language podcast Vaybertaytsh: A Feminist
 Podcast in Yiddish and is on the editorial board of In geveb: A Journal of
 Yiddish Studies.\n\nAll WIJS programming is open to women and men.  Please
 visit www.yinr.org/wijs to view the complete WIJS 2024-25 schedule.  For
 more information\, to be added to the WIJS email list\, or for Zoom
 information\, please call 914-636-2215 or email: wijs@yinr.org. 
 Individuals on the WIJS mailing list will automatically receive the Zoom
 information.
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