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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Seth SternPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.426kg ISBN: 9781978831612ISBN 10: 1978831617 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 17 March 2023 Recommended Age: From 16 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAuthor’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 IndexReviews"“Seth Stern skillfully brings to life a remarkable chapter in the little-known history of modern Jewish farming in the Diaspora. Lovingly written, Speaking Yiddish to Chickens travels with Stern’s grandparents and other European Jews from the horrors of the Holocaust to new lives in and around Vineland, New Jersey’s poultry farms, where these survivors healed their wounds and embarked upon their American journeys. Through meticulous research, Stern captures the extraordinary cooperation between the American government, Jewish philanthropic agencies, and the farmers themselves who made this bold experiment possible.”— Jonathan Dekel-Chen, author of Farming the Red Land: Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924–1941 “Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is attentive to the ways in which Holocaust survivors who took up poultry farming in Vineland built upon the achievements of their Jewish predecessors. Stern's individual stories are easy to follow, upbeat, and colorful. Stern is a seasoned and skilled journalist.” — Ellen Eisenberg, author of Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920 ""Seth Stern has created a nuanced, sensitive, and even affectionate account of an important, albeit neglected, outgrowth of the Jewish diaspora in North America. It will be of great interest to anyone who has a personal, social, or academic interest in the postwar period, oral history, and/or post-Holocaust immigration.""— Jewish Book Council ""Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is much more than one man’s story about his grandparents. Stern’s journalistic expertise allows him to broaden his scope, deftly layering different perspectives and narratives throughout the book.""— Rokhl Kafrissen, Tablet ""I grew up Jewish on a chicken farm. This book gets it right...Stern not only pinpoints the economic hardships and social dislocation the survivors experienced...The beauty of Speaking Yiddish to Chickens lies in Stern’s skill at conveying the ups and downs of some 1,000 survivors, each with their unique hardscrabble story.""— Barbara Finkelstein, The Forward" Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is attentive to the ways in which Holocaust survivors who took up poultry farming in Vineland built upon the achievements of their Jewish predecessors. Stern's individual stories are easy to follow, upbeat, and colorful. Stern is a seasoned and skilled journalist. --Ellen Eisenberg author of Jewish Agricultural Communities in New Jersey 1982-1920 """I grew up Jewish on a chicken farm. This book gets it right...Stern not only pinpoints the economic hardships and social dislocation the survivors experienced...The beauty of Speaking Yiddish to Chickens lies in Stern’s skill at conveying the ups and downs of some 1,000 survivors, each with their unique hardscrabble story."" -- Barbara Finkelstein * The Forward * ""Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is much more than one man’s story about his grandparents. Stern’s journalistic expertise allows him to broaden his scope, deftly layering different perspectives and narratives throughout the book."" -- Rokhl Kafrissen * Tablet * ""Seth Stern has created a nuanced, sensitive, and even affectionate account of an important, albeit neglected, outgrowth of the Jewish diaspora in North America. It will be of great interest to anyone who has a personal, social, or academic interest in the postwar period, oral history, and/or post-Holocaust immigration."" * Jewish Book Council * “Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is attentive to the ways in which Holocaust survivors who took up poultry farming in Vineland built upon the achievements of their Jewish predecessors. Stern's individual stories are easy to follow, upbeat, and colorful. Stern is a seasoned and skilled journalist.” -- Ellen Eisenberg * author of Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920 * “Seth Stern skillfully brings to life a remarkable chapter in the little-known history of modern Jewish farming in the Diaspora. Lovingly written, Speaking Yiddish to Chickens travels with Stern’s grandparents and other European Jews from the horrors of the Holocaust to new lives in and around Vineland, New Jersey’s poultry farms, where these survivors healed their wounds and embarked upon their American journeys. Through meticulous research, Stern captures the extraordinary cooperation between the American government, Jewish philanthropic agencies, and the farmers themselves who made this bold experiment possible.” -- Jonathan Dekel-Chen * author of Farming the Red Land: Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924–1941 * ""Stern is himself no stranger to the Yiddish-speaking, Jewish immigrant poultry farmers of Vineland, and perhaps it is this personal connection that makes this book so compassionate a telling, and so superb a history."" -- Marjorie N. Feld * American Jewish History *" Seth Stern skillfully brings to life a remarkable chapter in the little-known history of modern Jewish farming in the Diaspora. Lovingly written, Speaking Yiddish to Chickens travels with Stern's grandparents and other European Jews from the horrors of the Holocaust to new lives in and around Vineland, New Jersey's poultry farms, where these survivors healed their wounds and embarked upon their American journeys. Through meticulous research, Stern captures the extraordinary cooperation between the American government, Jewish philanthropic agencies, and the farmers themselves who made this bold experiment possible. --Jonathan Dekel-Chen author of Farming the Red Land: Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924-1941 Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is attentive to the ways in which Holocaust survivors who took up poultry farming in Vineland built upon the achievements of their Jewish predecessors. Stern's individual stories are easy to follow, upbeat, and colorful. Stern is a seasoned and skilled journalist. --Ellen Eisenberg author of Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920 """I grew up Jewish on a chicken farm. This book gets it right...Stern not only pinpoints the economic hardships and social dislocation the survivors experienced...The beauty of Speaking Yiddish to Chickens lies in Stern’s skill at conveying the ups and downs of some 1,000 survivors, each with their unique hardscrabble story."" -- Barbara Finkelstein * The Forward * ""Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is much more than one man’s story about his grandparents. Stern’s journalistic expertise allows him to broaden his scope, deftly layering different perspectives and narratives throughout the book."" -- Rokhl Kafrissen * Tablet * ""Seth Stern has created a nuanced, sensitive, and even affectionate account of an important, albeit neglected, outgrowth of the Jewish diaspora in North America. It will be of great interest to anyone who has a personal, social, or academic interest in the postwar period, oral history, and/or post-Holocaust immigration."" * Jewish Book Council * “Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is attentive to the ways in which Holocaust survivors who took up poultry farming in Vineland built upon the achievements of their Jewish predecessors. Stern's individual stories are easy to follow, upbeat, and colorful. Stern is a seasoned and skilled journalist.” -- Ellen Eisenberg * author of Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920 * “Seth Stern skillfully brings to life a remarkable chapter in the little-known history of modern Jewish farming in the Diaspora. Lovingly written, Speaking Yiddish to Chickens travels with Stern’s grandparents and other European Jews from the horrors of the Holocaust to new lives in and around Vineland, New Jersey’s poultry farms, where these survivors healed their wounds and embarked upon their American journeys. Through meticulous research, Stern captures the extraordinary cooperation between the American government, Jewish philanthropic agencies, and the farmers themselves who made this bold experiment possible.” -- Jonathan Dekel-Chen * author of Farming the Red Land: Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924–1941 *" Author InformationSETH STERN is a legal journalist and editor at Bloomberg Industry Group. He previously reported for Bloomberg News, Congressional Quarterly, and the Christian Science Monitor. He co-authored Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the Harvard Kennedy School, and Cornell University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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