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With their emphasis on feathers, fun, and friendship, bygone summers inevitably yielded to new seasonal demands. Little by little, advertisements for school shoes replaced those for sandals, while the sale of seats in synagogues and temples, “the first premonition of the approach of fall,” replaced those for summer getaways. But no sooner did worshipers, bedecked in their holiday finery, exit the synagogue, their collars turned up against the autumn chill, than thoughts turned once again to the “vagaries of vacation.”
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Joselit, Jenna Weissman. "Leisure and Recreation in the United States." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 1 March 2009. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on May 27, 2016) <http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/leisure-and-recreation-in-united-states>.