Camp Kinderland

For the Canadian summer camp once called Camp Kinderland, see Camp Naivelt.

Camp Kinderland is a summer camp located in Tolland, Massachusetts, for youngsters aged eight through sixteen. The camp's motto is summer camp with a conscience since 1923. The main topics of the curriculum are: equality, peace, community, social justice, activism, civil rights, Yiddishkeit, and friendship. Campers may stay for four weeks in July, three weeks in August, or all seven of the offered weeks. There is also a two-week session available for first-time campers in the youngest group.

Founding and history

Kinderland was founded by members of The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring, a leftist Jewish fraternal organization, in 1923 in Hopewell Junction, New York.

Politics

The camp's left-wing politics led it to be the place many red diaper babies were sent growing up,[1] which caused it to be investigated during the McCarthy era. Attendee and counselor Katie Halper directed and produced Commie Camp, a light-hearted 2013 documentary on the camp.[2]

Notable Kinderland alumni

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Butnick, Stephanie; Leibovitz, Liel; Oppenheimer, Mark (October 2019). The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar's and Everything in Between. Artisan Books. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-57965-953-0.
  2. ^ Jewish Film Institute, ca. 2013, "Commie Camp" https://jfi.org/programs/jfi-film-archive/commie-camp
  3. ^ "Camp Kinderland class of 1958".

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