‘Yiddish Pills’ and Summer Thrills: Reconstituting Yiddishism at Camp Hemshekh
Hosted By: YIVO
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents a lecture on how postwar Jewish leaders viewed summer camps as vital to preserving authentic Jewish culture amid fears of assimilation and suburbanization. The talk explores how Yiddishists, dedicated to sustaining Yiddish culture in America, helped shape these educational spaces and created programs like Camp Hemshekh to revive Yiddish language and identity. This event is part of YIVO’s ongoing series connected to its digitization of the Jewish Labor and Political Archives, a major collection documenting Jewish political and cultural life in Europe and the United States.
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