JEWISH AGRICULTURAL (and Industrial Aid) SOCIETY
- JEWISH AGRICULTURAL (and Industrial Aid) SOCIETY
- JEWISH AGRICULTURAL (and Industrial Aid)
SOCIETY, organization chartered in New York in 1900 to
provide East European immigrants with training "as free farmers on their
own soil…" A subsidiary of the baron de hirsch fund , the society
emphasized self-supporting agricultural activities, with rural industry
to supplement farm incomes. Its industrial removal Office,
autonomous after 1907, relocated thousands of immigrant workers from the
cities. Among the society's continued functions was the extension of
loans on generous terms to farm cooperatives as well as individuals. It
offered placement services and advice to potential agriculturists. A
Yiddish and English-language monthly, The Jewish Farmer, was
a vital channel of communication. While its extension specialists
fostered agrarian innovations, the Bureau of Educational Activities
stimulated cultural life, especially in the established rural
communities of southern New Jersey and Connecticut. The society's
officers included Eugene S. Benjamin, Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Jacob G.
Lipman, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and Lewis L. Strauss. An early shift from
group colonization to assisting individual enterprise became the basis
of most of the society's operations. Its diversified programs for
self-help, whether in New Jersey, New York, New England, or California,
were extended to thousands of displaced persons in the post-World War
II era.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
G. Davidson, Our Jewish Farmers and the Story of the Jewish
Agricultural Society (1943).
(Joseph Brandes)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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