Program

Research Programs: State and Local and Regional Studies

Period of Performance

7/1/1976 - 6/30/1977

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)


Farmingdale, New Jersey: Portrait of a Jewish Farm Community. An Analysis of Data and Presentation of Findings.

FAIN: RS-10069-76

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York, NY 10011-6301)
Gertrude W. Dubrovsky (Project Director: July 1976 to present)

To prepare a narrative history about Farmingdale, New Jersey, a Jewish farm community, and Jewish farmers in America. With focus on one group the study will show how a group of people with diverse backgrounds and no farming experienced survived and eventually created modern poultry farming in America.