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Engineering National Culture in the Diaspora Engineering National Culture in the Diaspora
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Constructing an Irish American Sports League Constructing an Irish American Sports League
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Developing a Two-Tiered League System Developing a Two-Tiered League System
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Constructing a Zionist Summer Camp Constructing a Zionist Summer Camp
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Organizing Diaspora Identification Organizing Diaspora Identification
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8 Playing the Nation: Constructing Cultural Revivals in the Irish and the Jewish Diaspora
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Published:November 2023
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Abstract
This chapter explores the construction of Irish and Jewish national cultures in the diaspora during the first half of the twentieth century. Specifically, the chapter focuses on the establishment of the Gaelic Athletic League in New York (GAANY, 1904–16) and Massad, a Jewish American summer camp that operated in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania (1941–81). These projects sought to create the experience of national belonging through play and recreation. Tracing the difficulties and successes of these organizations highlights the organizational challenges of diaspora nation-building. Notwithstanding their differences, both the GAANY and Massad strove to engineer camaraderie among members of their putative nations. To succeed in their mission, the leaders of the GAANY and of Massad developed unique organizational mechanisms that allowed putative members of the nation to cooperate without sharing substantive agreement on what membership in the nation meant. These practical organizational mechanisms permitted potential community members to practice being national and produced a sense of national belonging.
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