For decades, Jewish young people have spent their summers at sleep away camps. This paper focuses on the experiences of LGBTQ+ campers at Jewish sleep away summer camps in the United States through ethnographic research methods including anonymous surveys and one-on-one interviews. This project seeks to understand and uncover the systems and structures which have made Jewish summer camps socially and emotionally difficult spaces for queer-identifying campers. As an institution, the Jewish campin

In this paper I will argue that art which seeks out the unrepresentable embodied traumas of the Holocaust, which actively disassembles form, and thus encounters the limit case of comprehension, does so through artistically abstracting typical cognitive frames of Holocaust representation. In reaching this limit case—where embodied traumas exist without any distortion or alteration—abstract art activates the sense memories which lay in what Lawrence L. Langer calls, “deep memory,” and actively mov