Michigan Jews Conquer the Soil

Jewish Farmers Make Their Marks in Many Fields

Jewish farming groups in South-
western Michigan, including
Berrien, Van Buren, Allegan, Name
Address
Cass and Kalamazoo Counties. P. Goldenberg R1, Watson Rd., Sodus
Private farms now are operated
by Jews within an area of 20 to I. Fleishman RFD #2, South Haven
40 miles from Detroit.
RFD, South Haven
Louis Gore
By JUDAH GILEADI
Mr. Liph reports that in re- Hyman Kahn RFD, South Haven
Unheralded and unsung, Jewish farmers in Michigan cent years a number of Detroit Jos. Kelman RFD, South Haven

Type of Farms Conducted by Mich. Jews

Agricultural Society Aids
Pioneers to Settle on Land

Continue to play an important role in efforts to retain Jewish
interest in farming, to encourage a "return to the soil" and
to provide opportunities for those with inclinations to agricul-
ture to become rooted in farming communities.

It is not generally known
that a sizeable segment of
American Jewry is engaged in
agriculture; that a large num-
ber of Michigan Jews have
prospered on farms. It also is
little known that a number of
Detroiters who own farms are
anxious to expand their hold-
ings so that they should be-
come more than "Gentlemen
Farmers" but that they should
also be in position to make
their, farms actual media for
agricultural production and
for training Jews for settle-
ment on farms.

Nationally, it is reported by
the Jewish Agricultural Society
that • the increased interest in
farming is in evidence among
refugees, DPs and GIs and that
progressive Jewish farming
communities are to be found in
many states. It is pointed out
that Jews, whose cultural and
historic roots were nurtured by
the soil, should aim to broaden
their agricultural activities and
that interest in farming should
not be limited to the powerful
back-to-the-soil efforts in Is-
rael..

In Michigan, the background
of Jewish farming is traced to
the "Palestine Colony" experi-
ment at Bad Axe which started
in 1896 and ended, after a

brief seven-year period, in 1903.
The late Martin Butzel was its
instigator, in an effort to di-
rect the interest of immigrants
to farms rather than to ped-
dling and entrance in small
businesses.

A much larger experiment—
one of the most impressive ever
undertaken by American Jews,
was the establishment of the
Sunrise Colony, near Saginaw,
in the early 1930s, by several
hundred Jews from Detroit, New
York and a number of other
communities in this country and
in Canada. There were hard-
ships and struggles which could
have been overcome, but Sun-
rise Colony suffered from polit-
ical differences among its lead-
ers whose internal dissentions
caused its dissolution and its
eventual acquisition as 'a gov-
ernment project.
The late Fred M. Butzel, the
late Dr. Leo M. Franklin, Saul
R. Levin and many others were
interested in encouraging Jewish
farmers and were instrumental
in the settlement pf several
groups on the soil. Samson Liph,
midwest director of the Jewish
Agricultural Society, has worked
with Michigan farmers for many
years and to this day is guiding

Jews have been recruited as
farmers, that a number of
business men have purchased
farms, that many of them are
spending considerable time in
their rural homes.

Analyzing the progress made
by Jewish farmers in the middle
west, Mr. Liph said, during a
recent visit in Detroit:
"The Jewish Agricultural So-
ciety was established by the
Baron deHirsh Fund in 1900 and
is now completing 50 years of
service. The Chicago midwestern
office has been functioning since
1912,, and has rendered service to
a number of states including
Michigan.
"We continue to render serv-
ice in providing for the settle-
ment of refugees on farms, in
making it possible for former
GIs to settle on the land, in 'of-
fering advice to business men
who are -Operating farms."
The record of.the Jewish Agri-
cultural Society's services in-
cludes 14,371 loans to farmers
in 40 states for a total of $8,-
907, 268. Since 1939, 739 Jewish
families have settled on the land
and 692 of them remain rooted
in their new activities.
The appended partial list of
Jewish farmers in southwestern
Michigan and in areas near De-
troit provides a chie to the mul-
tiplicity of activities and the
type of farms conducted by Jews
who have conquered the soil in
our state.

$400,000 t-JA Payment Boosts Detroit's
Israel and. Overseas Gifts' to $2 Million

JWF Women's Division Party
Sunday to Discuss Campaign

With the collections on 1950 Allied Jewish Campaign
pledges running ahead of those of 1949 at this time, Samuel
H. Rubiner, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation, an-
nounced at the recent board of governors meeting that De-
troit would send the United Jewish Appeal $400,000 to ease
its cash shortage.

Counting the $400,000 going to
UJA this week, ,Detroit will have
sent more than $2,000,000 to
Israel and other overseas bene-
ficiaries out of its 1950-51 alio-
...4W "ations.
The financial report, read by
Rubiner, in the absence of Henry
Wineman, Federation treasurer,
showed that better than 93 per-
cent of the $5,362,000 pledged in
1948 has been paid and that col-
lections on 1949 pledges have
reached 87 percent.
Rubiner urged that all con-
tributors pay up their pledges
as soon as possible so that com-
mitments to all local, national
and overseas beneficiaries can
be met.
`Drink-Think' Party Sunday
Fund-raisers of the Allied
Jewish Campaign have an op-
portunity to discuss how a cam-
paign should be run at a series
of "drink and think" parties be-
ing inaugurated Sunday at 5
p.m. Leaders in the Women's
Division and Detroit Service
Group of the Jewish Welfare
Federations will serve as hosts.
Men and women volunteer
workers will include in their dis-
cussion of campaign operation
an exchange - of ideas and ex-
periences concerning community
organization in general and how
, '1 .Federation can improve its pres-
ent level of service to the com-
munity.
Parties will be held at the
homes of the following hosts:

40

—

THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, December 8, 1950

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Berry, Mrs.
Hyman C. Broder, Mr. and Mrs.
David Emerman, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Holtzman, Mr. and Mrs.
Maxwell Jospey, Mr. and Mrs.
Edward C. Levy, Mr. and Mrs.
Sol Shaye, Mr. and Mrs. Jule G.
Solomon and Mr. and Mrs. David
Wilkus, who will be joined by
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Cooper
as co-hosts.

Mrs. Roosevelt Honors
Famous Congregation

Mrs. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
is shown here congratulating
Dr. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN, rabbi
of historic Congregation Bnai
Jeshurun, • New York, at the
125th anniversary banquet of
the famous synagogue, second
oldest in the city and eighth
oldest in the natioit ■ L

Secret Agent Hatched
Plot to Kill Trotsky

NEW YORK, (AJP)—The 10-
year-old plot to murder Leon
Trotsky, Jewish-born leader of
the pre - Stalin •
era Soviet
Union, was
hatched here by
a Russian secret
agent who op-
erated in t h e
United States as
an official dele-
gate of the Rus-
sian Red Cross, Trotsky
Louis F. Budenz charged in an
affidavit given a congressional
investigation body and the FBI.
Frederick Woltman, noted
staff writer for the New York
World Telegram & Sun, who
"broke" the Trotsky story, told
the American Jewish Press that
the man identified as the mas-
ter-mind in the plot to slay
Trotsky, a Dr. Gregory Rabin-
owitch, according to Budenz,
had left the United States
shortly before the 1939 signing
of the Nazi-Soviet pact.
Woltman added that Rabino-
witch was last heard of in 1946
when he headed the Red Cross
in the Soviet Union as its na-
tional director.
Budenz, who once edited the
Communist Daily Worker, but
broke with the Party in 1945,
identified Rabinowitch as the
agent w h o plotted Trotsky's
bloody 1940 assassination in
Mexico City. Fluent in the Yid-
dish language and well-versed
in Jewish history, Trotsky was
in the fore of the movement to
overthrow Czar Nicholas. But
after Lenin's death, Trotsky and
his followers, some of whom re-
main organized both here and
in the Soviet Union, were purged
by Stalin and the little man
with the famous goat-tee mus-
tache was forced to flee for his
life to Mexico City.

Type Farm acr. Yrs. on

Fruit &
Truck
Poultry

40 a. 4 yrs.
20 a. 8 yrs.
20 (Mich.)
General 40 a. 15 (Ind.)
Model Fruit
Farm
40 a. 17 yrs.
Fruit &
20 a. 13 yrs,
Poultry
Harry Kinchin RFD2, Bangor
Fruit &
20 a. 9 yrs.
Tobias Kroll Igangor Rd., So. Haven Poultry
Poultry
15 a. 23 yrs.
Poultry &
Ben Bigman RFD, South Haven
20 a. 4 yrs.
Truck
Israel Martin Bangor Rd., So. Haven
40 a. 15 yrs.
Dairy
40 a. 6 yrs.
General
M. Lustman RFD, South Haven
S. Motanky
Bangor Rd., So. Haven Truck &
Poultry
20 a. 32 yrs.
Poultry
40 a. 10 yrs.
Nathan Green RFD, South Haven
General
40 a. 30 yrs.
C. Needelman Bangor
General &
M. Lindenbaum R#3, South Haven
Poultry
48 a. 5 yrs.
Louis Novak R#5, Phoenix Rd.,
Dairy
250 a. 35 yrs.
So. Haven
General &
Jacob Levin
RFD, South Haven
Poultry
40 a. 40 yrs.
Dairy &
E. Seeder & Son Goebels
80 a. 15 yrs.
Poultry
Fruit
40 a. 15 yrs.
D. Rosenheim RFD, South Haven
(Sev. farms)
Poultry &
Sam Manilow R#1, South Haven
40 a. 40 yrs.
General
General
40 a. 40 yrs.
L. Weisberg
RFD, South Haven
60 a. 30 yrs.
Paul Storck
RFD, South Haven
General
Truck &
Jacob Moskow RFD, South Haven
Poultry
20 a. 18 yrs,
20 a. 14 yrs.
Sol Kalom
Bangor Rd., So. Haven Dairy
10 a. 9 yrs,
A. Umansky
Bangor Rd., So. Haven Poultry
Al Sterling
Poultry
10 a. 40 yrs.
Route 2, Bangor
General
40 a. 9 yrs,
Theo. Nimz
R#3, Coloma
Fruit
40 a. 20 yrs.
Joseph Daken R#2, Watervliet
Fruit
60 a. 19 yrs.
Max Fishier RFD, Benton Harbor
Fruit
20 a. 29 yrs.
Morris Zaban Territorial Rd.,
Small Fruit 10 a. 30 yrs.
Benton Harbor
Harold Zaban Territorial Rd.,
Fruit
8 a. 5 yrs.
Benton Harbor
Joseph Guise 1920 Highland Ave.
Benton Harbor
Fruit
10 a. 7 yrs.
20 a. 28 yrs.
Wm. Marcus Route 3, Benton Harbor Fruit
18 a. 26 yrs.
Martin Marcus Route 3, Benton Harbor Fruit
80 a. 34 yrs
F. & W. SaretzkyR3, Benton Harbor
Fruit
70 a. 28 yrs.
Samuel Braudo R#3, Benton Harbor
Fruit
Fruit &
H. Lieberman RFD, Coloma,
40 a. 25 yrs.
General
80 a. 14 yrs,
Dairy
Wolf Shapiro R#1, Eau Clair
General &
Harry Shapiro Sodus
Fruit
170 a. 25 yrs.
Fruit &
Mrs. J. Flamm Eau Claire
Vegetable 42 a. 34 yrs,.
255 a. 26 yis.
Livestock
L. Dunaetz
R#3, Eau Clair
80 a. 20 yrs.
-Bangor Rd., So. Haven General
J. Waxman
• Fruit &
B. Rosenberg RFD, Sodus
Truck
110 a. 23 yrs.
(Agricultural Advisor, to the Govern-
ment-2nd generation)
>
40 a. 20 yrs; .
Truck
Cassopolis
Ben Shapiro
40 a. 16 yrs,
Dairy
R#2, Cassopolis
H. Tokarsky
190 a. 4 yrs,
Dairy
RFD, Three Oaks
M. Kessel
General &
Louis Loeser RFD, #3, Decatur
70 a 9 yrs.
Truck
(Refugee)
10 a. 25 yrs.
Mrs. P. Dolnick Base Line Rd., So. HavenTruck
Small Fruit
M KershenbaumBenton Harbor
& Truck 18 a. 32 yrs,
40 a. 35 yrs.
General
Bangor
Wolf Lipa
Harry Turnoy Base Line Rd., So. Haven Dairy &
10 a. 21 yrs,
Poultry
80 a. 24 yrs.
Dairy
RFD, South Haven
Louis Rubin
40 a. 35 yrs.
Dairy
M. Sendrowitz RFD 1, Kibbie
20 a. 35 yrs.
General
M. Androfsky South Haven
Dairy &
Ben Fagan RFD, Lawton
156 a. 18 yrs,
Grape
Poultry &
Lewis Koplon Breedsville
40 a. 10 yrs.
Grain
80 a. 22 yrs,
Livestock
L. Silverman
South Haven
192 a. 11 yrs.
General.
James Cahan Boone
40 a. 6 yrs.
General
Almont
Sam Epstein
Fruit &
Berrien Springs
S. Fishlow
90 a. 8 yrs,
General
40 a, 8 yrs,
General
Richmond,
Harry Green
40 a. 3 yrs.
General
South Haven
M. Sherman
60 a. 10 yrs,
General
S. LichtenStein Berrien Springs
20 a. 14 yrs.
Truck
Ben Richman South Haven
General &
Paw Paw
Joe Roderick
80 a. 15 yrs.
Fruit
General &
H. & N. Shapiro Sodus
. Fruit
160 a. 30 yrs.:
General &
R#4, South Haven
Sam Price
40 a. 25 yrS,
Truck
20 a. 15 yrs.
Fruit
R#2, South Haven
Joe Kellman
Potato &
Chas, Schpok RFD, Dowagiac
General
90 a. 30 yrs.
193 No. Brockway,
Oscar Weise
Fruit
15 a. 2 yrs.
South Haven
(Refugee)
10 a. 12 yrs. .
Ben Grossberg Phoenix Rd., So. Haven Truck
G&L Hochman Phoenix Rd., So. Haven General &.
ultry
Poultry
ez
60 a. 3 yrs.
Fruit
R#2, Benton Harbor
J. Friedland
40 a. 2 yrs.
Truck
(Refugee)
General & .
7740 S. River Drive
Bittermans
138 a. 24 yrs.
Marine City
80 a. 14 yrs,
ayy i r
Morris Sheiff RFD, Yale
40 a. 8 yrs.
Dai r y
RFD Yale
S. Kaplan
Dairy &
Washington
Irv. Kotlier
40 a. 12 yrs..
Truck
20 a. 15 yrs.
Truck
Washington
Joseph Ross
Truck
20 a. 17 yrs.
Washington
A. Krass
General
- 60 a. 10 yrs.
Flint
Frank Sears