Jewish Immigration to America

Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School

RG 120 - US657 - Farm workers 1907.jpg

Title

Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School

Date

1907

Subject

Agriculture
Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School
Woodbine (New Jersey)

Description

Students at the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School in Woodbine, New Jersey. In 1891, Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a German Jewish financier established a fund dedicated to creating a class of Jewish farmers in the Americas. (Later that same year,he created the Jewish Colonization Association to promote mass emigration of Russian Jews to agricultural colonies in South America.) Woodbine was one of the fund's first projects. Land for an agricultural colony there was purchased and Jewish families recruited. By 1906, the town had a population of 1,900, of which 94% were Jewish.

Source

YIVO Archives

Publisher

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Format

JPEG

Type

Photograph

Identifier

YIVO RG 120 - US657

Rights

YIVO owns the compilation of content that is posted on this website, which consists of text, images, and/or audio, and video. However, YIVO does not necessarily own each component of the compilation. Some content is in the public domain and some content is protected by third party rights. It is the user's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in YIVO websites.

The materials on this web site may be used for personal, research and educational purposes only. Publication (including posting on the Internet and online exhibitions) or any other use without prior authorization is prohibited. Please visit https://www.yivo.org/Rights-Reproductions for more information about use of materials from this website.

YIVO has employed due diligence in seeking to identify copyright holders of the materials in this compilation. We invite any copyright owners who are not properly identified to contact us at yivomail@yivo.cjh.org.

Citation

“Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School,” YIVO Online Exhibitions, accessed April 23, 2024, https://ruthrubin.yivo.org/items/show/6291.
Submit a transcription, translation or additional information on the song or the performer