Product Description: Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4The history of educational summer camps in American Reform Judaism. Reform Judaism is not the only religious community in America to make the summer camp experience a vital part of a faith community's effort to impart its values and beliefs to its adolescents, but perhaps no group relied more on summer camp as an adjunct to home and community for this purpose...read more

Product Description: In this volume, Gary Phillip Zola brings together an assortment of Jacob Rader Marcus's most important unpublished essays. Marcus called upon American Jewry to study its heritage, insisting on the link between individual Jews and the larger Jewish community.

An insightful look at everything that could be known about this remarkable early Jewish intellectual who was the inspiration for the genesis of Reform Judaism in America's south.