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Changes in Jewish Identification: A Comparative Study of a Teen Age Israel Camping Trip, a Counselor-in-Training Program, and a Teen Age Service Camp / Gerald B. Bubis and Lawrence E. Marks. New York: Florence G. Heller-JWB Research Center, 1975.
Dramatics the Year Round: Plays, Operettas, and Dramatic Ceremonial Services of Jewish Content for Schools, Community Centers, and Summer Camps / Edited by Samuel J. Citron; Illustrated by Howard Barker. New York: United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education, 1956.
"How Goodly Are Thy Tents": Summer Camps as Jewish Socializing Experiences / Amy L. Sales and Leonard Saxe. Hanover, N.H.: Brandeis University Press in association with The Avi Chai Foundation, published by University Press of New England, 2004.
History of Surprise Lake Camp / Jack Holman. New York: Surprise Lake Camp, 1972.
Israel in Jewish Summer Camps / Written by David Friedman, David Zisenwine; Edited by Barry Chazan [et al.]. Jerusalem: CRB Foundation, 1998.
Jewish Summer Camping and Civil Rights: How Summer Camps Launched a Transformation in American Jewish Culture / Riv-Ellen Prell. Ann Arbor: The Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, 2006
Jewish Summer Camps in the United States and Canada: 1900-1969 / by Daniel Isaacman. Dropsie University, Philadelphia, 1970.
A Place of Our Own: The Rise of Reform Jewish Camping: Essays Honoring the Fiftieth Anniversary of Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute, Union for Reform Judaism, in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin / Edited by Michael M. Lorge and Gary P. Zola. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006.
Raising Reds: The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States / Paul C. Mishler. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
The Ramah Experience: Community and Commitment / Edited by Sylvia C. Ettenberg and Geraldine Rosenfield. New York, N.Y.: Jewish Theological Seminary of America in cooperation with the National Ramah Commission, 1989.
Ramah: Reflections at 50: Visions for a New Century / Sheldon A. Dorph, Editor. New York, N.Y.: National Ramah Commision, 1999.
A Worthy Use of Summer: Jewish Summer Camping in America / Introduction by Chaim Potok; Edited by Jenna Weissman Joselit with Karen S. Mittelman. Philadelphia: National Museum of American Jewish History, 1993
Boyberiḳ Lider: Felḳer Yom ṭev / Nyu Yorḳ : Sholem Aleikhem Folḳ Insṭiṭuṭ, 1934-
Kinderland nayes: far ḳinder a geneydn = Kinderland news: a unique, progressive Jewish camping experience / Brooklyn: Camp Kinderland Inc,.
Kinderwelt Shiron / Summer Camp of Farband Labor Zionist Order. New York: The Farband, 1935.
Liderbukh / Liberṭi, N.Y.: Ḳemp Hemshekh, 1959.
Mir Zingen = We Sing / Compiled, Arranged & Edited by Eugene Malek. Hopewell Junction, N.Y.: Kinder Ring, 1964.
The Somerset / Camp Somerset, Mrs. Fannie L. Bernstein, director. Oakland, Maine, 1921[?]
Song Book of the CJI Camps / Compiled and Edited by A. I. Kalb. Revised. New York: Central Jewish Institute, 1929.
Songs of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps / Charles Feldman. New York: Dept. of Camp and Youth Education, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1970.