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- Title
Outside the Colony: Jewish Farmers on the Prairies.
- Authors
Lehr, John C.
- Abstract
Jews who immigrated to the Canadian prairies before 1914 mostly gravitated to urban areas. Those who chose to farm usually located in Jewish agricultural colonies where a full Jewish life was possible. A minority voluntarily settled in small farming communities among non-Jews. Jewish merchants in prairie towns also became involved in agriculture both as farmers and as agricultural traders and dealers. Few Jews chose to settle on homesteads where they were isolated from Jewish social and religious life. In the interwar period, attempts to circumvent restrictions placed on Jewish immigration led Jewish philanthropic agencies to place Jewish refugee immigrants on scattered farms, often isolated from Jewish communities. Although economically unsuccessful the strategy achieved its humanitarian objectives.
- Subjects
JEWISH refugees; PRAIRIES; AGRICULTURE; JEWISH communities; FARMERS; JEWISH way of life
- Publication
Canadian Jewish Studies / Études Juives Canadiennes, 2023, Vol 36, p79
- ISSN
1198-3493
- Publication type
Article