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Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920 (Paperback, 1st ed)
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Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920 (Paperback, 1st ed)
Series: Utopianism and Communitarianism
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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
the first modern Jewish agricultural settlements in Palestine.
Founded in 1882, the settlements survived for over thirty years.
The community of Alliance's population alone grew to nearly 1000 by
1908.Originally established as socialistic agrarian settlements by
young idealists from the Russian Jewish Am Olam movement, the
colonies eventually became dependent on industrial employment,
based on private ownership. The early independent, ideological
settlers ultimately clashed with the financial sponsors and the
migrants they recruited, who did not share the settlers'
communitarian and agrarian goals.
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