Scope and Contents

Records from a 1985 summer camp held in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains for Jewish deaf children, sponsored by the NCJD. Most records in this series are from the notebooks of camp director Simon Carmel and include correspondence, clippings, brochures, worksheets and booklets used at the camp, information on campers and activities, and financial records for the camp.

Scope and Contents This series is mostly made up of records from Jewish deaf groups around the country that are or were affiliated with the NCJD. Materials present include newsletters (see series 9 for more on newsletters), prayer books and other publications, program books from events, and news clippings about the groups. There is also some correspondence from the groups. There are especially large collections of material from California’s Temple Beth Solomon of the Deaf, New York’s Temple Beth Or, and the...