{"product_id":"jewish-agricultural-utopias-in-america-1880-1910-paperback","title":"Jewish Agricultural Utopias in America, 1880-1910 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eUri D. Herscher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrook Farm, Oneida, Amana, and Nauvoo are familiar names in American history. Far less familiar are New Odessa, Bethlehem-Jehudah, Cotopaxi, and Alliance--the Brook Farms and Oneidas of the Jewish people in North America.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The wealthy, westernized leaders of late nineteenth-century American Jewry and a member of the immigrating Russian Jews shared an eagerness to \"repeal\" the lengthy socioeconomic history in which European Jews were confined to petty commerce and denied agricultural experience. A small group of immigrant Jews chose to ignore urbanization and industrialization, defy the depression afflicting agriculture in the late 1800s, and devote themselves to experiments in collective farming in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eUri D. Herscher is associate professor of American Jewish history and executive vice-president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He holds degrees from the University of California (B.A., 1964) and Hebrew Union College (M.A.H.L., 1970; D.H.L., 1973). Rabbi Herscher is the co-editor, with S. F. Chyet, of \u003ci\u003eOn Jews, America, and Immigration: A Socialist Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e (1980) and author of numerous articles on Jewish history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 197\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 05, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130523717767,"sku":"9780814344651","price":41.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6e9e2a0acc702bd40772dbceb76547d7.webp?v=1732611536","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/jewish-agricultural-utopias-in-america-1880-1910-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}