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Description
Camp Kelowa and Camp Singing Trail, located in Lake Huntington, California, were camps for Jewish boys and girls directed by by Louis and Emma Blumenthal in the 1930s. Louis and Emma (nee Loewy) Blumenthal played central roles in Jewish communal life in San Francisco during the middle of the twentieth century. Louis served as executive director of the YMHA from 1924 until 1933 and then as co-founder (with Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel) and executive director of San Francisco’s Jewish Community Center from 1933 until his death in 1959. Emma Blumenthal spent 39 years as associate director of the JCC. Both Louis and Emma were engaged with issues relating to youth, camping, child health, and social work. Louis was the author of multiple books on group work and camping and served on national and regional camping organizations. This film was produced by Louis and Emma Blumenthal to provide a glimpse of life at both Camp Kelowa and Camp Singing Trail in 1936. Written on original container: Highlights of 1937: K. + S.T.
Type
moving image
Format
Original Silent Black and White (Tinted) 16mm film
Form/Genre
Nonfiction films
Extent
1 Reel of 1
Identifier
BANC MSS 2010/689 cbm_000011
Language
English
Subject
Jewish youth--California--Social life and customs Huntington Lake (Calif.)--History Jewish camps—California--History Blumenthal, Louis H Blumenthal, Emma
Provenance
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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