NAACP Community Conversations on Race: Harvesting Stones, May 31 @ 1:00pm
ZoomHarvesting Stones: The Jewish Farmers of Eastern Connecticut It’s the 1890s, Connecticut Yankees are selling their rocky farms, Jews are fleeing Czarist Russia, and a Jewish back-to-the-land movement sees turning shtetl refugees into farmers as the best way for them to become productive, self-sufficient Americans. Add some funding from the German-Jewish philanthropist Baron Maurice de […]