Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920
Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920

Author: Ellen Eisenberg

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1995-08-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780815626633

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Most of the synagogues are gone; a temple has been converted into a Baptist church. There is little indication to the passerby that the southern New Jersey’s Salem and Cumberland counties once contained active Jewish colonies—the largest and most successful in fact, of the settlement experiments undertaken by Russian-Jewish immigrants in America during the late nineteenth century. Ellen Eisenberg’s work focuses on the transformation of these colonies over a period of four decades, from agrarian, communal colonies to private mixed industrial-agricultural communities. The colonies grew out of the same “back to the land” sentiment that led to the development of the first modern Jewish agricultural settlements in Palestine. Founded in 1882, the settlements survived for over thirty years. The community of Alliance’s population alone grew to nearly 1000 by 1908.Originally established as socialistic agrarian settlements by young idealists from the Russian Jewish Am Olam movement, the colonies eventually became dependent on industrial employment, based on private ownership. The early independent, ideological settlers ultimately clashed with the financial sponsors and the migrants they recruited, who did not share the settlers’ communitarian and agrarian goals.

Social Aspects of the Jewish Colonies of South Jersey (Classic Reprint)
Social Aspects of the Jewish Colonies of South Jersey (Classic Reprint)

Author: Philip Reuben Goldstein

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-16

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781333255374

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Excerpt from Social Aspects of the Jewish Colonies of South Jersey The writer's data spring from a community survey of all the colonies to be considered hereafter, from annual reports of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society, from statistics of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, and from supplementary communication with their officials and conversa tion with pioneers in the Jewish colonization movement. The data have all been collated and set forth with a will to absolute unpartiality. May I thank by name the gentlemen just referred to: Gabriel Davidson, the general manager of the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society of New York City; Mr. Maurice Fels, of Philadelphia; Mr. Louis Mounier of Vineland, New Jersey; Mr. Frank Hartman, supervising principal of the Woodbine Land and Improvement Company, as well as all those others who helped to make this thesis possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Social Aspects of the Jewish Colonies of South Jersey
Social Aspects of the Jewish Colonies of South Jersey

Author: Philip Reuben Goldstein

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-09-03

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781341457340

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Community and Polity
Community and Polity

Author: Daniel Judah Elazar

Publisher: Jewish Publication Society

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780827605657

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An update and revision of the original 1976 edition. This study presents a two-fold discussion: a basic survey of the structure and functions of the American Jewish community, and a suggestion as to how that community should be understood as a body politic, a collective unit that is not a state but is no less real from a political perspective.

New Jersey, a Guide to Its Present and Past
New Jersey, a Guide to Its Present and Past

Author:

Publisher: Best Books on

Published: 1939

Total Pages: 771

ISBN-13: 1623760291

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