Organized Recreation-Curative Stays for Adults and Children. An Analysis of Cases from the Lvov Area from the Interwar Period Cover Image

Organized Recreation-Curative Stays for Adults and Children. An Analysis of Cases from the Lvov Area from the Interwar Period
Organized Recreation-Curative Stays for Adults and Children. An Analysis of Cases from the Lvov Area from the Interwar Period

Author(s): Anna Jakimyszyn
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Jewish studies, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: 1918-1939; organized medical care for adults and children; the Dębina sanatorium; Brzuchowice; Jews; Lvov

Summary/Abstract: Paper deals with organizations, which were mostly created by the more affluent members of the Jewish community in Lvov for improvement of the hygiene and sanitary conditions of their poorer fellow citizens and medical prevention. The aim of paper is to present their history and characteristics of different forms of assistance, recreation and treatment which the above-mentioned organizations of the Jewish population in Lvov provided in the interwar period (winter and summer camps for children and young people, day camps, the Dębina sanatorium, summer camps for adults, family stays).

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 87-97
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English