Inventing Jewish Identity in California: Schlomo Bardin, Zionism and the Brandeis Camp Institute
Author(s)
Deborah Dash Moore
Publication Name
National Variations in Jewish Identity: Implications for Jewish Education
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Publisher
State University of New York (SUNY) Press
Abstract
This piece employs a case study to explore educational innovation explicitly designed to change the Jewish identities of its participants. Through its focus on a charismatic figure in Los Angeles and the camp he created in the Simi Valley, the author approaches the central issue of individual initiative and communal organization to test the claims of this theory. She finds that the camp ended up losing its original Zionist ideologist zeal while keeping its Zionist reputation. In addition, the author notes how the charismatic figure was able to get Secular Jews to reclaim part of their Jewish identity by recreating it through the camp experience as something inspiring, compelling and intriguing.
Editor
Cohen, Steven M
Horenczyk, Gabriel
Horenczyk, Gabriel
Geographic Coverage
United States
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Bibliographic Information
Inventing Jewish Identity in California: Schlomo Bardin, Zionism and the Brandeis Camp Institute. 1999: https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-bjpa4275
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