Speaking Yiddish to Chickens : : Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms / / Seth Stern.
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 southern N...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- AUTHOR’S NOTE
- PROLOGUE
- 1 PASSAGE
- 2 NEW YORK
- 3 FINDING A FARM
- 4 SETTLING IN
- 5 SMALL-TOWN JEWS
- 6 WORD-OF- MOUTH MIGRATION
- 7 MIXED RECEPTION
- 8 GETTING NOTICED
- 9 VICISSITUDES
- 10 COMFORT ZONES
- 11 COMMUNITY BUILDING
- 12 NEW CONNECTIONS
- 13 FAMILY AND FRIENDS
- 14 DOWNTURN
- 15 RURAL CHILDHOODS
- 16 HURRICANES
- 17 COPING
- 18 GRIEF AND FAITH
- 19 FEED MEN AND A RECORD-BREAKING HEN
- 20 LABORERS
- 21 THE GOLDEN EGG
- 22 SEEKING HELP
- 23 ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOODS
- 24 TEENAGERS
- 25 VALEDICTORY
- 26 AFTER FARMING
- POSTSCRIPT
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX