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Fresh Air Society and
Tamarack Camps'
2005 Annual Meeting,
Noon-2 pm,
Sun, July 10, 2005,
Camp Maas,
4361 Perryville Rd.,
Ortonville

past and present medical staff
George Blum, former camp
doctor and volunteer, presents
remarks.

Annual meeting provides
opportunity to visit with
old friends, tour the grounds
and experience the magic
of Tamarack.

Afternoon includes election
of board of directors and
ceremony honoring

Casual dress.
Brunch will be served;
dietary laws observed.
Shuttle service available at
camp.

Event is free of charge.
All welcome.

For more information,
contact Sandy Schuster at
(248) 647-1100, ext 119.

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The mission of the Fresh Air
Society & Tamarack Camps
is to maintain recreational
camps that offer programs
and enriching Jewish experi-
ences throughout the year to
the entire community The
Fresh Air Society was found-
ed in 1902 as a non-profit
organization providing
camping services to under-
privileged Jewish youth.
Currently, approximately
one-third of our campers
receive financial assistance
each summer. our overriding
principal is that no child be
denied a camp experience
due to financial need.
Tamarack Camps, as part of
the Fresh Air Society, serves
as a model for Jewish camps
nationwide. It is a consistent
agency of the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit, as well as a member
of the Jewish Community
Center Association.

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temporaries, thoroughly trained in
post-biblical Judaica as well as ancient
Near Eastern languages and litera-
tures, who showed how illuminating
this combination of fields can be.
The study of the Bible as "a spiritu-
al exercise" and "a moral training"
was a pervasive theme in Sarna's writ-
ings. Repeatedly he showed how
God's morality is inherent in the
monotheistic idea and how, as he
wrote, the corollary, that "there is an
intimate, in fact, inextricable connec-
tion between the socio-moral condi-
tion of a people and its ultimate
fate," underlies the biblical interpreta-
tion of history.
Sarna's scholarship was character-
ized by a strong literary orientation,
ferreting our the unifying composi-
tional strategies, recurring motifs and
structure of the biblical text. These
aims helped explain his reservations
about the usefulness of source criti-
cism, the scholarly method that seeks
to identify earlier literary sources used
in the composition of biblical books.
Sarna became increasingly con-
vinced — apparently as he began
writing his commentaries — that
source criticism is overly hypothetical
and of limited value, and that what
the final text says is more interesting
than its history.
Hence, his commentaries are not
based on "dissecting a literary
corpse," but are concerned with, as he
wrote, the Bible as "a living literature
and a dynamic force in history."
Sarna was born in London on
March 27, 1923. His father, a learned
Jewish book dealer who knew the
German classics as well as Jewish lit-
erature, filled his home with books.
Sarna was taught Bible stories from
a young age. His father was also a
Zionist leader and as a youngster
Sarna met Jewish leaders and schol-
ars, such as Chaim Weizmann,
Vladimir Jabotinsky, Moses Gaster
and Benjamin Maisler (Mazar) who
visited his home. 0

Jeffiey Tigay is Ellis Professor of Hebrew
& Semitic Languages & Literatures at
the University of Pennsylvania. This
piece was adapted front the foreword he
wrote to Nahum Sarna's book, "Studies
in Biblical Interpretation" UPS, 2000).

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Correction

The obituary for Blanche Pollack
(June 23) should have indicated that
she was the sister-in-law of the late
Jack Winston.