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Author Herscher, Uri D.

Title Jewish agricultural utopias in America, 1880-1910 / by Uri D. Herscher
Published Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1981

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Description 1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations
Summary 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
Analysis Agricultural colonies United States History
Jewish farmers United States History
Jews United States History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190) and index
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Subject Agricultural colonies -- United States -- History
Jewish farmers -- United States -- History
Jews -- United States -- History
Agricultural colonies
Jewish farmers
Jews
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814344644
081434464X
0814344658
9780814344651
Other Titles Wayne State University Libraries Digital Collections