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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מחבר ראשי: Dubrovsky, Gertrude Wishnick, 1926-
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1992.
סדרה:Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)
גישה מקוונת:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=23331
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סיכום: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.
תיאור פיזי:1 online resource (xvi, 251 pages) : illustrations.
פורמט: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.
ביבליוגרפיה:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-245) and index.
ISBN:0585245592
9780585245591
0817305440
9780817305444