Hebrew Infusion

SARAH BUNIN BENOR is Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College and courtesy Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. Her books include Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism, published by Rutgers University Press and winner of the Sami Rohr Choice Award for Jewish Literature.   JONATHAN KRASNER is the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Associate Professor of Jewish Education Research at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.  He is the author of The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education, winner of the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies.   SHARON AVNI is Professor of Literacy and Linguistics at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and a Research Associate at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Contents

Introduction

Part I   Past

1          Hebrew Infusion in American Jewish Summer Camps, 1900-1990

2          Camp Massad in the Poconos and the Rise and Fall of Hebrew Immersion Camping

3          Camp Ramah: A Transition from Immersion to Infusion

Part II  Present

4          A Flexible Signifier: Diversity in Hebrew Infusion and Ideology

5          The Building Blocks of Infusion

6          “Sign” Language: Visual Displays of Hebrew and Jewish Space

7          Bringing Israel to Camp: Israeli Emissaries and Hebrew

8          Conflicting Ideologies of Hebrew Use

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index