Adventures in Idealism
Eugene Benjamin, Boris Bogen, Saul Drucker, Jacob Lipman, Solomon Lowenstein, Bernard Palitz, Joseph W. Pincus, Katharine Sabsovich, George W. Simon
1922
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He believed Russian Jewish refugees could be made into American farmers, then went out and proved it in raw New Jersey woodland. Hirsch Sabsovich built a colony and an agricultural school out of scrub and stumps, and his widow assembled this record of him alongside the colleagues who worked at his side. A stubborn, practical idealist, remembered by the people who watched an idea turn into fields and houses.
28 chapters
- 1Foreword3m
- 2School Days in Russia11m
- 3Odessa and the Pogrom15m
- 4From Law to Agriculture6m
- 5Among the Don Cossacks20m
- 6Facing the New World14m
- 7Pioneering with the Pioneers8m
- 8A Call to the Land8m
- 9Opening of the Woodbine Tract14m
- 10Building the Colony17m
- 11The First Problems19m
- 12Unrest Among the Colonists17m
- 13Added Industries4m
- 14Strengthening the New Allegiance11m
- 15Bringing Science to the Farmers9m
- 16A Pioneer of Agricultural Schools12m
- 17Woodbine Entertains6m
- 18New Institutions7m
- 19The Colony Incorporates12m
- 20Recollections9m
- 21In the Hearts of His People7m
- 22The Practical Idealist9m
- 23A Pioneer Social Worker7m
- 24A Life Nobly Lived32m
- 25Our Teacher7m
- 26The Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School9m
- 27The Jewish Farmers' Best Friend17m
- 28The Leader of Jewish Agriculture in America8m
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