Speaking Yiddish to chickens : Holocaust survivors on South Jersey poultry farms /
"Most of the roughly 140,000 Holocaust survivors who came to the United States in the first decade after World War II settled in big cities such as New York. But a few thousand chose an alternative way of life on American farms. More of these accidental farmers wound up raising chickens in sout...
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Format: | Licensed eBooks |
Language: | English |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2023]
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Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18530995 |
Table of Contents:
- Passage
- New York
- Finding a Farm
- Settling In
- Small Town Jews
- Word of Mouth Migration
- Mixed Reception
- Getting Noticed
- Vicissitudes
- Comfort Zones
- Community Building
- New Connections
- Family & Friends
- Downturn
- Rural Childhoods
- Hurricanes
- Coping
- Grief & Faith
- Feed Men & A Record Breaking Hen
- Laborers
- The Golden Egg
- Seeking Help
- Alternative Livelihoods
- Teenagers
- Valedictory
- After Farming.