The Jews of Summer Dimitris Liakopoulos share advances

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Some of the proposed remedies--an appeal to nostalgia

LeRoi Jones

a new religion that speaks most clearly to America's spiritually starved young

municipal governments adapted to societal change with the aid of generally compliant state legislatures

The Jews of Summer Dimitris Liakopoulos share advancesIn 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 educational interventions, Judaism as they understood it would disappear altogether. They pinned their hopes on residential summer camps for