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URL:https://www.wjcouncil.org/events/yinr-womens-initiative-for-jewish-stu
 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\, Septemb
 er 18\, 2024 @ 8:15 pm (ET) on Zoom.  Fox will be the first speaker of th
 e 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 Ca
 mp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America.”  How did the residential sum
 mer camp become an integral part of American Jewish life?  Is there somet
 hing special about the relationship between Jews and camp?  In the decade
 s directly following the Holocaust\, American Jewish leaders anxiously deb
 ated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish cul
 ture\, fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the f
 uture of Jewish life.  Many communal educators and rabbis contended that 
 without intervention\, Judaism as they understood it would disappear altog
 ether. They pinned their hopes on residential summer camps for Jewish yout
 h\, institutions that sprang up across the U.S. as places for children and
  teenagers to socialize\, recreate\, and experience Jewish culture.  Adul
 ts' fears\, hopes\, and dreams about the Jewish future inflected every ele
 ment 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 whe
 ther to accept or resist the ideas and ideologies their camp leaders promo
 ted.  In this lecture\, Sandra Fox explains how a sense of cultural crisi
 s birthed a rite of passage for Jewish children across the country.\n\nSan
 dra Fox is a visiting Assistant Professor of American Jewish History and Y
 iddish 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 Yo
 rk University.  Her book\, The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Cul
 ture in Postwar America (Stanford University Press\, 2023) addresses the e
 xperiences of youth in postwar Jewish summer camps and the place of interg
 enerational negotiation in the making of American Jewish culture.  In add
 ition to her research\, Sandra is the founder and executive producer of th
 e Yiddish-language podcast Vaybertaytsh: A Feminist Podcast in Yiddish and
  is on the editorial board of In geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies.\n\nA
 ll 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 ca
 ll 914-636-2215 or email: wijs@yinr.org.  Individuals on the WIJS mailin
 g list will automatically receive the Zoom information.
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