Am Olam
Am Olam was a movement among Russian Jews to establish agricultural colonies in America. The name means "Eternal People" and is taken from the title of an essay by Peretz Smolenskin.[1][2] It was founded in Odessa in 1881 by Mania Bakl (Maria Bahal) and Moses Herder, who called for the creation of Socialist agricultural communities in the United States.[3]
In the 1880s there were 26 colonies promoted in 8 states. Eventually the majority of Am Olam colonies were set up upon a "commercial" rather than communalist basis.[4] The land was owned in common but divided into sections farmed by individuals.[5][6]
See also
- Kibbutz, a type of cooperative agricultural community created by Zionist Jews in Palestine, later in Israel
- Moshav, a similar type of community, but with less of a collective administration system than the kibbutz
- Roosevelt, New Jersey: Visions of Utopia: 1983 documentary about a 1930s socialist Jewish farming community
References
- ^ Am Olam: the History of the Eternal Nation (FROM THE HASKAMOS, VOLUME I; ISBN 0873064836) Hardcover – 1989
- ^ "Am Olam".
- ^ "Am Olam - Dictionary definition of Am Olam - Encyclopedia.com: FREE online dictionary".
- ^ Fogarty, Robert S. (1 January 2003). "All Things New: American Communes and Utopian Movements, 1860-1914". Lexington Books – via Google Books.
- ^ Shepherd, Naomi (1993). A Priced below Rubies: Jewish Women as Rebels and Radicals. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP. p. 193. ISBN 0-674-70410-X.
- ^ Frankel, Jonathan (1981). Prophecy and Politics: Socialism, Nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. pp. various. ISBN 0 521 23028 4.
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