{"id":1380,"date":"2021-10-01T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jewish-agriculture\/?page_id=1380"},"modified":"2021-10-25T19:53:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T19:53:33","slug":"jewish-farming-in-the-garden-state","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jewish-agriculture\/jewish-farming-in-the-garden-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Farming in the Garden State"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 From Toms River near the shore to Roosevelt outside of Trenton all the way south to Woodbine on the road to Cape May, generations of Jewish colonists farmed New Jersey from the 1880s until the 1960s.<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 Like Jewish farmers around the Americas, Eastern Europe and Palestine during these decades, the Garden State colonists were almost all totally new to the farming life, having worked before that mostly in commerce, the trades, peddling or even \u201cliving off the air\u201d (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">luftmenschen <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in Yiddish). They almost all began their journey to the land in the mid-Atlantic region under difficult political and economic conditions somewhere in East or Central Europe.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 The New Jersey story of Jewish farming began with the ill-fated <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/jewish-agriculture\/am-olam\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Am Olam<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> movement<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the early 1880s, when the Alliance Colony was first founded in Salem County.\u00a0 Those humble roots grew in the coming decades into a major agrarianization project involving tens of thousands of immigrants, huge investments from Jewish philanthropic organizations, trials and errors on the land, the creation of long-lasting cooperative associations and the integration of Jewish colonists into the fabric of the Garden State. <\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 From Toms River near the shore to Roosevelt outside of Trenton all the way south to Woodbine on the road to Cape May, generations of Jewish colonists farmed &hellip; 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