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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.

Agricultural colonies --- History. --- Jews --- Jewish farmers --- Labor colonies --- Colonies --- Land settlement --- Farmers, Jewish --- Jews as farmers --- Farmers --- Social & cultural history

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Challenging prevalent stereotypes, Dubrovsky reveals a unique aspect of Jewish life in America. Although Jews have long been stereotyped as urban businesspeople and professionals, they have been successful agriculturalists since biblical times. In their more recent Eastern European history, 96 percent were forced to live in a region known as the Pale of Settlement, where they were forbidden to own land and were restricted to certain occupations. The pernicious rumor that Jews would not work the soil was then widely broadcast. At the end of the 19th century, young Russian intellectuals were det

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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.

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)