The land was theirs : Jewish farmers in the Garden State /
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 perce...
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
©1992.
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| سلاسل: | Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=23331 |
| الملخص: | 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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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (xvi, 251 pages) : illustrations. |
| التنسيق: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-245) and index. |
| ردمك: | 0585245592 9780585245591 0817305440 9780817305444 |