A Place of Our Own - The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping

Informationen zum Autor Michael M. Lorge is an attorney with Laser, Pokorny, Schwartz, Friedman & Economos in Chicago, Illinois. He is a member of the national board of the Union for Reform Judaism and a vice-chair of its national camping commission. He has lectured and written extensively on both legal and Jewish issues. Gary P. Zola is Executive Director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and Associate Professor of the American Jewish Experience at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Klappentext The history of educational summer camps in American Reform Judaism. Zusammenfassung Contains seven essays! which commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the first Reform Jewish educational camp in the United States. This book covers topics related to both the Reform Judaism movement and the development of the Reform Jewish camping system in the United States.

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• Authors: Judah M. Cohen, Hillel Gamoran, Gerard W. Kaye, Michael M. (EDT)/ Zola Lorge, Jonathan D. Sarna, Donald M. Splansky, Michael Zeldin
• Assisted by: Michael M Lorge (Editor), Michael M. Lorge (Editor), Gary P. Zola (Editor), Gary Phillip Zola (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2006
• EAN: 9780817352936
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5293-6
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Judaic Studies (Paperback); Judaic Studies; Judaic Studies (Paperback)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism