The main topics of the curriculum are: equality, peace, community, social justice, activism, civil rights, Yiddishkeit, and friendship.
Kinderland was founded by members of The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring, a leftist Jewish fraternal organization, in 1923 in Hopewell Junction, New York.
Camp Kinderland, along with the rest of the left wing of the Workmen's Circle, split off in 1930 and created the International Workers Order and became the official summer camp of the Jewish section of the International Workers Order.
Camp Kinderland promotes progressive social values through its cultural program.
[citation needed] The camp's left-wing politics led it to be the place many red diaper babies were sent growing up,[1] which caused it to be investigated during the McCarthy era.