DescriptionJersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban, Jewish garment workers, many of whom had emigrated from Europe. In this interview, Irving Bach, who lived in Roosevelt from the 1930s to the 1950s, discusses the factory at Jersey Homesteads, his family's role in the town and clothing factory, and his reminiscences of the town before and after the second World War.