Professor Hirsch Sabsovich – Jewish Agriculturalism in the Garden State

Professor Hirsch Sabsovich personified the global character of organized Jewish farming life from the late 1800s until the mid-1900s.

For more on his early life in the Russian Empire and his extraordinary role as a leader of the Woodbine colony, see the film below.

Sabsovich at a colonist’s home in Woodbine Sabsovich & young people in Woodbine

Credit: Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage at Stockton University