DescriptionIn this letter, Albert Einstein declines an invitation to attend a celebration at Jersey Homesteads. The letter is addressed to Boris Drasin. Jersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt) was established in the...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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...
Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
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...
DescriptionThis comments paper by Caroline Golab, an Assistant Professor of History and Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, is from 'New Jersey's Ethnic Heritage: Papers Presented at the Eighth...
DescriptionJersey Homesteads (later the Borough of Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of...
DescriptionThis letter, which has been translated from Yiddish, describes the ways in which the author felt that the Communist Party had infiltrated the Jewish farm co-operatives of New Jersey and used them as a...