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Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920 (Utopianism and Communitarianism)
Ellen Eisenberg
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Paperback. This text analyses the impact of premigration origins, postmigration experiences and sponsor policies on the development of a cluster of Jewish colonies in southern New Jersey. It focuses on the transformation from agrarian, communal colonies to private mixed industrial-agricultural communities. Num Pages: 380 pages, 10 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSF; JFSR1; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 227 x 14. Weight in Grams: 331.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815626633
SKU
V9780815626633
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