Camp Hemshekh

Title: Camp Hemshekh

Inclusive Dates: 1959-1978

ID: RG 1468

Extent Information

8' 4.5"

Creators

Camp Hemshekh

Administrative/Biographical History

Camp Hemshekh was a Jewish summer camp located in the Catskill Mountains in New York state from 1959-1978. It was founded by members of the Jewish socialist organization called the Bund. Many of the founders of Hemshekh were survivors of the Holocaust. Hemshekh is the Yiddish or Hebrew word for "continuation."

The goal of the camp was to instill in its campers the ideals of the Jewish socialist movement which had existed in prewar Poland. These ideals included empahsis on secular Yiddish culture, and the principles of equality, and justice.

Camp Hemshekh closed in 1978. Large reunions are held every couple of years in New York.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Children
Socialism
Summer Camps
United States
Yiddish secular movement

Finding Aid Information

Preliminary Inventory, English, 3 pp., typed

Languages of Materials

English
Yiddish

Administrative Information

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Acquisition Note: Transferred from the Bund Archives of the Jewish Labor Movement to YIVO, 1992

Collection Material Type: Official Records

Description: Camp newsletters and songbooks. Applications of campers and counselors. Correspondence. Financial records. Promotional materials. Video footage of the camp and its activities. Papers of Michael Baran, a director of the camp who also worked at other Yiddishist institutions.