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Jewish Agricultural Utopias in America, 1880-1910
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ISBN: 081434464X 0814344658 Year: 2018 Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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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.

A Mennonite in Russia
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ISBN: 1442667729 9781442667723 9781442615410 1442615419 0802027881 9780802027887 1442667737 Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto

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Epp's writings reveal a skilled and honest diarist of deep feelings, and tell a human story that no conventional historical account could hope to equal.

Imagining Zion
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ISBN: 1281729906 9786611729905 0300128002 9780300128000 9780300094831 0300094833 Year: 2003 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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This timely book tells the fascinating story of how Zionists colonizers planned and established nearly 700 agricultural settlements, towns, and cities from the 1880's to the present. This extraordinary activity of planners, architects, social scientists, military personnel, politicians, and settlers is inextricably linked to multiple contexts: Jewish and Zionist history, the Arab/Jewish conflict, and the diffusion of European ideas to non-European worlds. S. Ilan Troen demonstrates how professionals and settlers continually innovated plans for both rural and urban frontiers in response to the competing demands of social and political ideologies and the need to achieve productivity, economic independence, and security in a hostile environment. In the 1930's, security became the primary challenge, shaping and even distorting patterns of growth. Not until the 1993 Oslo Accords, with prospects of compromise and accommodation, did planners again imagine Israel as a normal state, developing like other modern societies. Troen concludes that if Palestinian Arabs become reconciled to a Jewish state, Israel will reassign priority to the social and economic development of the country and region.


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The last battle
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ISBN: 1316870049 131687009X 1316870146 1316870340 1316408760 1316870197 1107125065 1316870294 9781316870297 9781316408766 9781316870341 9781316870198 9781316870044 9781316870143 9781107125063 Year: 2016 Publisher: Australia Cambridge University Press

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When Australian soldiers returned from the First World War they were offered the chance to settle on 'land fit for heroes'. Promotional material painted a picture of prosperous farms and contented families, appealing to returned servicepeople and their families hoping for a fresh start. Yet just 20 years after the inception of these soldier settlement schemes, fewer than half of the settlers remained on their properties. In this timely book, based on recently uncovered archives, Bruce Scates and Melanie Oppenheimer map out a deeply personal history of the soldiers' struggle to transition from Anzac to farmer and provider. At its foundation lie thousands of individual life stories shaped by imperfect repatriation policies. The Last Battle examines the environmental challenges, the difficulties presented by the physical and psychological damage many soldiers had sustained during the war, and the vital roles of women and children.

Bonapartists in the borderlands
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ISBN: 0817382615 9780817382612 0817314873 9780817314873 Year: 2005 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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The ill-fated Vine and Olive Colony within the context of America's westward expansion and the French Revolution.Bonapartists in the Borderlands recounts how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe and the Caribbean joined forces with Latin American insurgents, Gulf pirates, and international adventurers to seek their fortune in the Gulf borderlands. The U.S. Congress welcomed the French to America and granted them a large tract of rich Black Belt land near Demopolis, Alabama, on the condition that they would establish a Mediterranean-style Vine and Olive colony.

Farming the red land: Jewish agricultural colonization and local Soviet power, 1924-1941
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ISBN: 1281722987 9786611722982 0300133928 9780300133929 9781281722980 9780300103311 030010331X Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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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.

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Jews --- Agricultural colonies --- Jewish farmers --- Farmers, Jewish --- Jews as farmers --- Farmers --- Labor colonies --- Colonies --- Land settlement --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Colonization --- Economic conditions. --- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. --- Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers --- G'oinṭ (Organization) --- AJDC --- JDC (Organization) --- American Joint Distribution Committee --- A.J.D.C. --- J.D.C. (Joint Distribution Committee) --- Joint Distribution Committee --- Jewish Joint Distribution Committee --- Joint (Organization) --- J.D.C. Israel --- G'oinṭ Yiśraʼel --- AJJDC --- JDC-Israel --- Dzshonṭ disṭribyushon ḳomiṭe --- Американский еврейский распределительный комитет --- Amerikanskiĭ evreĭskiĭ raspredelitelʹnyĭ komitet --- Джойнт (Organization) --- Dzhoĭnt (Organization) --- Благотворительный фонд "Джойнт" --- Blagotvoritelʹnyĭ fond "Dzhoĭnt" --- American Jewish Distribution Committee --- Американский еврейский объединенный распределительный комитет "Джойнт" --- Amerikanskiĭ evreĭskiĭ obʺedinennyĭ raspredelitelʹnyĭ komitet "Dzhoĭnt" --- ג׳וינט --- ג׳וינט ישראל --- ג'וינט-ישראל. --- דזאינט --- דזשאינט --- דזשאינט דיסטריביושאן קאמיטע --- דזשינט --- ועד המרכזי של היהודים המשוחררים באיזור האמריקאי --- Crimea (Ukraine) --- Ukraine, Southern --- Soviet Union --- Pivdenna Ukraïna --- Southern Ukraine --- Stepova Ukraïna --- Steppe Ukraine --- Советский Союз --- Ber. ha-M. --- Zwia̦zek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich --- Szovjetunió --- TSRS --- Tarybų Socialistinių Respublikų Sąjunga --- SRSR --- Soi︠u︡z Radi︠a︡nsʹkykh Sot︠s︡ialistychnykh Respublik --- SSSR --- Soi︠u︡z Sovetskikh Sot︠s︡ialisticheskikh Respublik --- UdSSR --- Shūravī --- Ittiḥād-i Jamāhīr-i Ishtirākīyah-i Shūrāʼīyah --- Russia (1923- U.S.S.R.) --- Sovetskiy Soyuz --- Soyuz SSR --- Sovetskiĭ Soi︠u︡z --- Soi︠u︡z SSR --- Uni Sovjet --- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics --- USSR --- SSṚM --- Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Ṛespublikaneri Miutʻyun --- SSHM --- Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Hanrapetutʻyunneri Miutʻyun --- URSS --- Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas --- Berit ha-Moʻatsot --- Rusyah --- Ittiḥād al-Sūfiyītī --- Rusiyah --- Rusland --- Soṿet-Rusland --- Uni Soviet --- Union soviétique --- Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Uls --- Związek Radziecki --- ESSD --- Sahaphāp Sōwīat --- KhSHM --- SSR Kavširi --- Russland --- SNTL --- PSRS --- Su-lien --- Sobhieṭ Ẏuniẏana --- FSSR --- Unione Sovietica --- Ittiḥād-i Shūravī --- Soviyat Yūniyan --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Krym (Ukraine) --- Krim (Ukraine) --- Krimm (Ukraine) --- Republic of Krym (Ukraine) --- Taurida (Ukraine) --- Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) --- Respublika Krym (Ukraine) --- Crimean Republic (Ukraine) --- Avtonomna Respublika Krym (Ukraine) --- Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) --- ARK (Ukraine) --- Krymskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Ukraine) --- Colonization. --- Social conditions. --- Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich --- ZSRR --- Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Sowieckich --- ZSRS --- History of Eastern Europe --- anno 1920-1929 --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- Russia --- Ukraine --- Крим (Ukraine) --- Krym-Tavrida (Ukraine) --- Крым-Таврида (Ukraine) --- Tavrida (Ukraine) --- Таврида (Ukraine) --- Республіка Крим (Ukraine) --- Автономна Республіка Крим (Ukraine) --- АРК (Ukraine)

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