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Book The Land Was Theirs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gertrude W. Dubrovsky
  • Publisher : University of Alabama Press
  • Release : 1992-02-28
  • ISBN : 0817305440
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book The Land Was Theirs written by Gertrude W. Dubrovsky and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1992-02-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history is mostly of the farming community of Farmingdale.

Book Back to the Soil

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  • Author : Robert Alan Goldberg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781607811558
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Back to the Soil written by Robert Alan Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goldberg discusses the agrarian efforts of Jewish immigrants by focusingon the attempt of a Jewish colony in Clarion, Utah, from 1911 to the mid-1920s."

Book Jewish Farmer in America

Download or read book Jewish Farmer in America written by Jacob Ornstein-Galicia and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ornstein's work explains what it was like for a Jewish family to own and work a family farm surrounded by gentiles and isolated from the Jewish community. It is essentially the author's memoir told in a conversational style, and it captures the sights and sounds of rural surroundings, the intricacies of farming in Geauga County Ohio, the voices of neighbours and visitors, and perceptive insights into the meaning of the family's experience and the rural way of life.

Book The American Jewish Farmer in Changing Times

Download or read book The American Jewish Farmer in Changing Times written by Herman Joseph Levine and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Agricultural Activities of the Jews in America

Download or read book The Agricultural Activities of the Jews in America written by Leonard George Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jewish Farmers of the Catskills

Download or read book Jewish Farmers of the Catskills written by Abraham D. Lavender and published by Relativism; 3. This book was released on 1995 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost a century, the largest concentration of Jewish farmers outside of Russia or Israel survived as a community in upstate New York, prospering on land that others in the area essentially had abandoned. Using archival records that date to the nineteenth century and extensive interviews with the farm families and others, Abe Lavender and Clarence Steinberg tell the story of immigrants from Eastern Europe and New York's Lower East Side who came together in the Catskill Mountains with dreams, ambitions, and fortitude to forge a common culture.

Book Jewish Agricultural Utopias in America  1880 1910

Download or read book Jewish Agricultural Utopias in America 1880 1910 written by Uri D. Herscher and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive treatment of America's Jewish farming utopias revealing the confluence of American and Jewish utopian traditions and measures the impact of the American experiments on the nascent kibbutz movement in Palestine. Brook Farm, Oneida, Amana, and Nauvoo are familiar names in American history. Far less familiar are New Odessa, Bethlehem-Jehudah, Cotopaxi, and Alliance—the Brook Farms and Oneidas of the Jewish people in North America. The wealthy, westernized leaders of late nineteenth-century American Jewry and a member of the immigrating Russian Jews shared an eagerness to "repeal" the lengthy socioeconomic history in which European Jews were confined to petty commerce and denied agricultural experience. A small group of immigrant Jews chose to ignore urbanization and industrialization, defy the depression afflicting agriculture in the late 1800s, and devote themselves to experiments in collective farming in America. Some of these idealists were pious; others were agnostics or atheists. Some had the support of American and West European philanthropists; others were willing to go it alone. But in the farming colonies they founded in Oregon, Colorado, the Dakotas, Michigan, Louisiana, Arkansas, Virginia, and New Jersey, among other places, they were sublimely indifferent to the need for careful planning and thus had limited success. Only in New Jersey, close to markets and supporters in New York and Philadelphia, were colonization efforts combined with agro-industrial enterprises; consequently, these colonies were able to survive for as long as one generation.

Book Farming the Red Land

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  • Author : Jonathan L. Dekel-Chen
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 0300133928
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Farming the Red Land written by Jonathan L. Dekel-Chen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first history of the Jewish agricultural colonies that were established in Crimea and Southern Ukraine in 1924 and that, fewer than 20 years later, ended in tragedy. Jonathan Dekel-Chen opens an extraordinary window on Soviet rural life during these turbulent years, and he documents the remarkable relations that developed among the American-Jewish sponsors of the ambitious project, the Soviet authorities, and the colonists themselves. Drawing on extensive and largely untouched archives and a wealth of previously unpublished oral histories, the book revises what has been understood about these agricultural settlements. Dekel-Chen offers new conclusions about integration and separation among Soviet Jews, the contours of international relations, and the balance of political forces within the Jewish world during this volatile period.

Book Jews in American Agriculture

Download or read book Jews in American Agriculture written by Jewish Agricultural Society and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Comrades and Chicken Ranchers

Download or read book Comrades and Chicken Ranchers written by Kenneth Kann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a portrait of the Petaluma Jewish community from the early years of the century to the present day. Kenneth L. Kann interviewed more than two hundred residents, representing three generations of Jewish Americans. The picture that emerges from their testimony is of a wonderfully animated and fractious community. Its history blends many of the familiar themes of American Jewish life into a richly individual tapestry. In the first few decades of this century, many Jewish immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe wound up in Petaluma. This first generation of chicken farmers consisted largely of educated, often professional men and women; many were drawn to chicken farming as much by Marxist or Zionist beliefs in the dignity of labor as by economic necessity. They helped establish the particular character of a community, with its combination of arduous work and cultural aspiration.

Book Back to the Soil

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  • Author : Robert Alan Goldberg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Back to the Soil written by Robert Alan Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chosen Few

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  • Author : Maristella Botticini
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0691144877
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book The Chosen Few written by Maristella Botticini and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary to previous explanations, this transformation was driven not by anti-Jewish persecution and legal restrictions, but rather by changes within Judaism itself after 70 CE--most importantly, the rise of a new norm that required every Jewish male to read and study the Torah and to send his sons to school. Over the next six centuries, those Jews who found the norms of Judaism too costly to obey converted to other religions, making world Jewry shrink. Later, when urbanization and commercial expansion in the newly established Muslim Caliphates increased the demand for occupations in which literacy was an advantage, the Jews found themselves literate in a world of almost universal illiteracy. From then forward, almost all Jews entered crafts and trade, and many of them began moving in search of business opportunities, creating a worldwide Diaspora in the process.

Book The Jewish Farmer

Download or read book The Jewish Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Immigrants to Freedom

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  • Author : Joseph Brandes
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2009-12-01
  • ISBN : 1462843034
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Immigrants to Freedom written by Joseph Brandes and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigrants to Freedom is not a volume of past circumstances; it details the continuing quest of the Jewish people to find a more perfect union with lands and peoples of expanding freedom. from the Preface by Moshe Davis An almost unknown chapter in the story of U.S. immigration and social history opened in 1882 with the creation Southern New Jersey of Alliance, the first rural Jewish settlement in the New World. Escaping from the pogroms of Eastern Europe, disillusioned with the poverty-ridden slums of the big cities, and inspired by popular leaders such as Michael Bakal and Moshe Herder who taught the dignity of manual labor, four hundred Jews chose to become American farmers. Thousands more followed, to settle within the triangular district bounded by Vineland, Millville, and Bridgeton, all searching for individual transformation as well as group transplantation, all seeking to disprove the stereotype of the Jew as small trader and middleman. Their successes, failures, conflicts with the urban Jews of nearby New York and Philadelphia these are the fascinating subjects of this intimately written history. These organized agricultural communities were not primarily Zionist, unlike the pioneering settlements of the same period in Eretz Yisrael. Originally conceived as privately subsidized social experiments, free of socialist or nationalist ringes, these groups sought to overcome anti-Semitism while striving for a more creative life and almost at once, true to their basic Jewish sense of family and self-help, the experiments in farming became programs for saving lives, first from the sanctioned savagery of Alexander III, later from the holocaust of Nazi Germany. These colonizing experiments, says Dr. Brandes, were both a kaleidoscope and a mirror of the major forces in modern Jewish life. Agrarianism, Americanism, Zionism, a testing traditional values all were to be found here in microcosm. [They are]a significant chapter in the history of a people straining from oppression to freedom.

Book Geneva Jewish Farmers Reunion Records

Download or read book Geneva Jewish Farmers Reunion Records written by Geneva Jewish Farmers and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of correspondence and a scrapbook pertaining to two reunions of former farm family members and their descendants, and several published and unpublished articles about the community.

Book Our Jewish Farmers and the Story of the Jewish Agricultural Society

Download or read book Our Jewish Farmers and the Story of the Jewish Agricultural Society written by Gabriel Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report   Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society

Download or read book Annual Report Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society written by Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: