{"product_id":"jewish-agricultural-utopias-in-america-uri-d-herscher-9780814344651","title":"Jewish Agricultural Utopias in America, 1880-1910","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eThis book is the first comprehensive treatment of America's Jewish farming utopias revealing the confluence of American and Jewish utopian traditions and measures the impact of the American experiments on the nascent kibbutz movement in Palestine.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrook 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Uri D. Herscher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814344658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814344651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d","brand":"Uri D. Herscher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980600869119,"sku":"9780814344651","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c195234e-b66f-4cde-9928-b7dca21a856f.jpg?v=1683250834","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jewish-agricultural-utopias-in-america-uri-d-herscher-9780814344651","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}