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A01=Theodore H. Friedgut
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Stepmother Russia, Foster Mother America: Identity Transitions in the New Odessa Jewish Commune, 1881-1891 & Recollections of a Communist

In the late nineteenth century, a group of radical Jewish youths from Odessa attempted to create an agricultural commune on the Oregon frontier, and in so doing developed from assimilated revolutionaries to American Jews. Theodore Friedgut relates the story of these youths and their creation, with special notice paid to the human encounters within the commune, the members encounters with America in acquiring land and equipmentand, importantly, their encounters with their neighbors, themselves immigrant farmers on the American frontier. Among the volumes central sources is the memoir of Israel Mandelkern, which is here published for the first time. This study addresses hitherto neglected aspects of Jewish life in Russia and of the life of one of the more than a hundred Jewish agricultural colonies, and helps us understand the factors that influenced the young colony members in their transition toward becoming Americans. This is a microcosm of the experience of multitudes of immigrants. 

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  • Dimensions: 155 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Oct 2014
  • Publisher: Academic Studies Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781618113818

About Israel MandelkernTheodore H. Friedgut

Theodore H. Friedgut is Emeritus Professor of Russian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The most recent of his six books The Lipton Jewish Agricultural Colony 1901-1951: Pioneering Canadas Prairies was awarded the 2009 Switzer-Cooperstock Prize in Western Canadian Jewish History.

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