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Jewish agricultural utopias in America, 1880-1910 /
Brook Farm, Oneida, Amana, and Nauvoo are familiar names in American history. Far less familiar are New Odessa, Bethlehem-Jehudah, Cotopaxi, and Alliance⁰́₄the Brook Farms and Oneidas of the Jewish people in North America. The wealthy, westernized leaders of late nineteenth-century American Jewry an...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
2018.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Abbreviations Used in Text, Picture Credits, and Notes; 1. A Condition of Imbalance; The Jew in Russia, Early 1800s; Refugee Assistance in America, 1880s; Agriculture: A Means of Resettlement; 2. "Our Russian Colonies"; Jewish Settlements in America: Early Plans; Ararat, New York; Zeire Hazon and Sholem, New York; American Hebrew Agricultural and Horticultural Association, New York; Jewish Farming Settlements in America, 1880-1910; Alliance Israélite Universelle: Its Role; Sicily Island, Louisiana; New Odessa, Oregon
- Crémieux, South DakotaBethlehem-Jehudah, South Dakota; Am Olam Group Settlement, Arkansas; Cotopaxi, Colorado; Palestine, Michigan; Painted Woods and Iola, North Dakota; Chananel, North Dakota; 3. New Jersey: "Every Beginning Is Difficult"; Alliance; Woodbine; 4. The American Experience; Settling Jewish Colonists as Farmers: Problems; Failures of Jewish Communal Farms: Causes; Jewish Agricultural Utopias: An Assessment; Colonization in Palestine/Israel and America: A Comparison; Appendix 1: Jewish Farming Colonies in New Jersey; Appendix 2: Sidney Bailey's Memoir; Notes; Selected Bibliography