TY  - GEN
T1  - The land was theirs : Jewish farmers in the Garden State
T2  - Judaic studies series (Unnumbered)
A1  - Dubrovsky, Gertrude Wishnick, 1926-
LA  - English
PP  - Tuscaloosa, Ala.
PB  - University of Alabama Press
YR  - 1992
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm44955846
AB  - 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.
OP  - 251
CN  - F145.J5 D83 1992eb
SN  - 0585245592
SN  - 9780585245591
SN  - 0817305440
SN  - 9780817305444
KW  - Dubrovsky, Gertrude Wishnick, : 1926-
KW  - Jews : New Jersey : Farmingdale : History.
KW  - Jews : Colonization : New Jersey : Farmingdale : History.
KW  - Jewish farmers : New Jersey : Farmingdale : Case studies.
KW  - Jewish farmers : New Jersey : Farmingdale : Biography.
KW  - Farmingdale (N.J.) : Ethnic relations.
KW  - Juifs : New Jersey : Farmingdale (Monmouth) : Histoire.
KW  - Juifs : Colonisation : New Jersey : Farmingdale (Monmouth) : Histoire.
KW  - Agriculteurs juifs : New Jersey : Farmingdale (Monmouth) : Études de cas.
KW  - Agriculteurs juifs : New Jersey : Farmingdale (Monmouth) : Biographies.
KW  - HISTORY : State & Local.
KW  - HISTORY : State & Local : General.
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Jewish farmers
KW  - Jews
KW  - Jews : Colonization
KW  - New Jersey : Farmingdale
KW  - Joden.
KW  - Boeren.
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Case studies
KW  - History
KW  - Biographies.
ER  -