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title:The Land Was Theirs : Jewish Farmers in the Garden State Judaic Studies Series (Unnumbered)
author:Dubrovsky, Gertrude Wishnick.
publisher:University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin:0817305440
print isbn13:9780817305444
ebook isbn13:9780585245591
language:English
subjectJews--New Jersey--Farmingdale--History, Jews--Colonization--New Jersey--Farmingdale--History, Jewish farmers--New Jersey--Farmingdale--Case studies, Jewish farmers--New Jersey--Farmingdale--Biography, Dubrovsky, Gertrude Wishnick,--1926- , Farmingdale (N.
publication date:1992
lcc:F145.J5D83 1992eb
ddc:974.9/46
subject:Jews--New Jersey--Farmingdale--History, Jews--Colonization--New Jersey--Farmingdale--History, Jewish farmers--New Jersey--Farmingdale--Case studies, Jewish farmers--New Jersey--Farmingdale--Biography, Dubrovsky, Gertrude Wishnick,--1926- , Farmingdale (N.
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Judaic Studies Series
The Land Was Theirs
Jewish Farmers in the Garden State
Gertrude Wishnick Dubrovsky
Leon J. Weinberger,
General Editor
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS
Tuscaloosa and London
Page iv
Copyright 1992 by The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All Rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
The research for this work was funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the New Jersey Historical Commission. The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research sponsored the work and supervised the grants.
The author wishes to thank the following for use of copyrighted material: Morris U. Schappes, A Documentary History of the Jews in the United States, 16541875. Copyright 1950, 1971 by Morris U. Schappes. Used by permission.
Gabriel Davidson, Our Jewish Farmers and the Story of the Jewish Agricultural Society. Copyright 1943. Used by permission of the Baron de Hirsch Fund. Leo Shpall, "Jewish Agricultural Colonies in the United States." Copyright 1950 by The Agricultural History Society. Used by permission.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dubrovsky, Gertrude Wishnick, 1926
The land was theirs : Jewish farmers in the Garden state / Gertrude W. Dubrovsky.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8173-0544-0
1. JewsNew JerseyFarmingdaleHistory. 2. JewsColonizationNew Jersey
FarmingdaleHistory. 3. Farmers, JewishNew JerseyFarmingdaleCase studies. 4. Farmers, Jewish
New JerseyFarmingdaleBiography. 5. Dubrovsky, Gertrude Wishnick, 1926 . 6. Farmingdale (N.J.)
Ethnic relations. I. Title.
F145.J5D83 1992 974.946dc20
91-28217
CIP
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available
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For the people of Farmingdale
with whom I have spent
the greater part of my life.
Page vii
Picture 3
Behold, of the fat places of the earth
Shall be thy dwelling,
And of the dew from heaven above.
Genesis 27:39
Picture 4
He has taken hold in the soil
... as if he drives roots into the earth.
I. J. Schwartz, Kentucky
Picture 5
The land was ours before we were the land's.
Robert Frost, "The Gift Outright"
Picture 6
My parents always remembered the black soil of Russia
which they were not permitted to plow.
Louis Harwood, Farmingdale farmer
Picture 7
Springtime comes, and the leaves are turning green;
Dewdrops glisten in the sun.
Birds are singing to the rhythm of the stream.
I love living on the land.
Michael Nappa (194487), third-generation descendant of Farmingdale farmers
Page ix
CONTENTS
Preface
xi
Introduction: Jewish Agriculture in America
1
Part 1. Beginnings
1. The Place: Farmingdale
29
2. Pioneers: Peskin and Friedman
33
Part 2. The People
3. Eastern European Settlers
43
4. German Refugees
58
5. American Intellectuals
65
6. Displaced Persons
78
7. Descendants
87
Part 3. The Life
8. Living Together
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