Camp Hemshekh

Camp Hemshekh (Yiddish: המשך; "continuation" Literally: Camp "Continuation") was a Jewish summer camp in the United States, established in 1959 by Holocaust survivors who were active in the General Jewish Labour Bund in Eastern Europe. The camp was sponsored by the Bund and aimed to promote the principles of the Jewish socialist movement that had been active in the Second Polish Republic. These included secular Yiddish culture, equality and justice, and the Bundist concept of doikayt ("hereness"), which emphasized Jewish cultural and political engagement in one's country of residence rather than the pursuit of a separate homeland for the Jewish people. Participants in the camp were referred to as Hemshekhistn (singular: Hemshekhist)..

Camp Hemshekh was located at five sites in New York State: Liberty (1959), Beecher (near Hunter, 1960), Turkey Point (near Saugerties, 1961), Hunter proper (1962–1968), and Mountain Dale (1969–1978).

Alumni of the camp included Daniel Libeskind, Binyumen Schaechter, Zalmen Mlotek, Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath, Lazer Lederhendler, and Gloria Brame.

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