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One of America’s first Jewish farms was nearly lost to history. Now these Brooklyn parents are risking everything to keep their family's legacy alive.

Benyamin Cohen in Forward · 19 Dec 2025

Brooklyn couple Malya and William Levin are spearheading efforts to revive their family's legacy at one of America's first Jewish agricultural settlements, the Alliance Colony in South Jersey.

0 History Holocaust

I grew up Jewish on a chicken farm. This book gets it right.

Barbara Finkelstein in Forward · 21 Mar 2023

Seth Stern's book "Speaking Yiddish to Chickens" delves into the lives of Holocaust survivors who settled in southern New Jersey post-World War II and established a unique Jewish community through chicken farming.

0 History Culture

Speaking Yiddish to chickens: Holocaust survivors on South Jersey chicken farms

Seth Stern in Forward · 13 Feb 2023

After World War II, approximately a thousand Holocaust survivors settled in southern New Jersey, establishing poultry farms in an area already familiar with Jewish immigrant farmers since the 1880s.

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Viewing the World Through Chicken Goggles

Forward · 14 Jul 2016

At the National Museum of American Jewish History, the "Locally Grown: Jersey's Jewish Farms" exhibit sheds light on the rich history of Jewish farming communities in New Jersey and beyond.

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Chris Lerman, 90: She Helped America Remember the Holocaust

Forward · 26 May 2016

Rosalie Chris Lerman, who passed away at 90, was instrumental in Holocaust remembrance efforts alongside her husband, Miles Lerman, a Holocaust survivor and anti-Nazi partisan.

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We Bought an Average Farm in New Jersey. Or So We Thought.

Forward · 5 Aug 2015

Molly Staub's article reminisces about her family's experiences at their New Jersey farm purchased post-WWII, inadvertently connecting with the legacy of American Jewish agricultural colonies.