Camp Massad (Poconos)

Camp Massad מחנה מסד‬‎
Massad logo, 1963
Location
Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania, United States
Coordinates	41°13′05″N 74°52′12″W / 41.218°N 74.870°W / 41.218; -74.870
Information
Type	Jewish summer camp
Founded	July 7, 1941 (1941-07-07)
Founder	Shlomo Shulsinger
Closed	1981; 44 years ago (1981)
Gender	Co-educational
Language	Hebrew

Camp Massad (Hebrew: מַחֲנֶה מַסָד, Maḥaneh Massad) was a Zionist Jewish summer camp in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, which closed in 1981. Massad's founder, Shlomo Shulsinger, emphasized Hebrew language as a key value in a multi-denominational Zionist Jewish environment.

Massad was founded as a day camp in 1941 by the HaNoar Ha'Ivri with thirty campers, and eventually grew to three sleep-away camps in Pennsylvania, Massad Alef, Bet, and Gimmel, collectively known as the Massad Hebrew Camps in the United States (Hebrew: מַחֲנוֹת מַסָד בְּאַרְצוֹת הַבְּרִית) At its peak in the late 1960s, the Massad camps hosted over a thousand campers and staff each summer. In its forty years of existence, the camp strongly influenced both Jewish camping and Hebrew culture in North America.