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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal
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Chronicle
October I, 194'
jewes n Farmers Are Soldiers on the Food Front
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Long before sundown on Sept.
30, the eve of Rosh Hashonah,
Jewish men and women and chil-
dren on farms over America will
come early from the harvest
fields to prepare for the celebra-
tion of this High Holy Day. Rosh
Hashonah—the beginning of an-
other year—the time to take
stock of what has been accom-
plished and what lies ahead.
By GABRIEL DAVIDSON
3,000 Jews in the whole United on the soil, and they are gro-‘.
Editor's Note: Mr. Davidson is the managing director of the Jewish States when Mordecai Manual ing in numbers, prepared in tin),
Agricultural Society, and the author of Our Jewish Farmers. Noah in 1820 announced his plan of war as in times of peace i„
make their fullest contribution
This year perhaps more than pressor. "God bless America," to establish a Jewish agricultural to the basic economy of this
colony
on
Grand
Island
in
the
ever before these Jewish farmers they may well murmur, looking
blessed land of hope and oppor-
Niagara River—a plan which pro-
will give thaals for the bounte- forward to the New Year with gressed no further than purchase tu nny.
This year the Jewish farmer
ous fruits of nature which by full hearts.
of the land.
faces the New Year—prepared as
their own hands tgey have raised
It has not been an easy year--
The first concerted effort to before in this great struggle to
on their own land. They will look this one just past. For it has found a Jewish farm colony came
out across their fields at thf.i been full of the blood and thun- in 1837 in Sholem in New York give of himself and of his sub-
hay stacked high, the laden fruit der of the holocaust abroad. State. It failed, but it was fol- stance. And this year in prayer
trees, the healthy broods of Hardly a single farm has not lowed by many others, which, from a full heart he will ask.
Le Shono Toro Tikosevu
chicks—and their hearts will swell felt the absence of a family though they too failed, left the "God grant the world be right
with thanks to God for these good member—whose letters have come seeds of their ambition within again next year and our son:
things, and for the knowledge from far parts of this country, its people and pointed the turn- and daughters be with us hoar
that the thnie of conflict goes or from the Pacific area or ing to agriculture which has be- again. God grant that I may do
NORMANDIE GRILL slowly
but surely against the op- North Africa or Sicily—wherever come so marked since the begin- my duty and my share as a citi-
zen and a man. God bless this
the armed forces have gone. ning of the century.
hind
America and bring it peace."
Hardly a farm has not felt the
It is indeed deeply significant
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lack of needed labor to work the T hat a Jewish farm class has
crops and care for the livestock ; been built up within a compara-
the complete dearth of farm tively short span of years. They
Rosh Hashonah Greetings!
Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu
equipment. They have all toiled have hewn for themselves a lib.
(Across from Fisher and
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longer and harder to carry the
double burden and to produce to
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And
when
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farm
work
was
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done these men and women served
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on the home front as well. They
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are air raid wardens and fire
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wardens, airplane spotters. They
have knitted and made bandages
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for the Red Cross. They have
given blood for the plasma bank.
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L'Shono Tovo Tikosevu!
Their salvage and scrap drives
have been intensive. Their daugh-
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ters are nurses. They have canned
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and preserved to make best pos-
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sible use of every bit of food.
Synagogues,
community
houses
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cooperative headquarters have be-
MANUFACTURERS'
come collection centers and cen-
L'Shono Tovo Tikosevu!
ters for all kinds of Red Cross
HOLIDAY GREETINGS
REPRESENTATIVE
activities. Jewish farmers have
collected money for Chanukah
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and Christmas presents for sol-
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diers and sailors. Through the
columns of "The Jewish Farmer,"
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at group meetings, at farm gath-
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War bond drives have been
outstanding. A typical instance
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is that of the small Jewish farm
community of Bound Brook, N. J.,
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which recently celebrated attain-
ment of its goal of $25,000 worth Rosh Hashonah Greetings!
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of bonds and stamps, and re-
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ceived commendation from the
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all they're worth. Of your
Different in no way is the Jew-
ish farmer from other American
own free will, are you? Buy
Happy New Year To All!
farmers, whatever their religion.
Second War Loan Bonds today!
He is notable only in that he dis-
proves what had become an al-
most axiomatic statement—Jews
cannot farm. The myth is ex-
All Types of
ploded.
On the contrrary it took nearly TILE AND TERRAZZO WORK
two millenia to make the drastic
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and fashioning the simple toots
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dispersed people overwhelmingly
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tariat.
It
took
wars'
to
devastate
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Palestine and bring about by
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forced migrations a scattering cf
the tribes all over the known
world. It took religious proscrip-
tion to set these people apart
for centuries; to make their pos-
Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu — A Happy New Year
session of the land impractical
and later illegal. It took 2,000
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years of denial, persecution, le-
gal
restriction
and
religious
hos-
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It is therefore notable that
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ican history Jews engaged in
agricultlure. Abraham de Lyon,
a Jew, brought the vine and silk
cultures from Portugal to Geor-
gia. Also in the South, Jews were
engaged in the production of in
digo. rice, corn, tobacco an 1
cotton. There were not more thar
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