Am Olam
The Am Olam movement was a movement among Russian Jews to establish agricultural colonies in America. The name literally meaning "Eternal People" is taken from the title of an essay of Peretz Smolenskin.[1][2] It was as 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] Eventually the majority of Am Olam colonies were set up upon a "commercial" rather than communalist basis. In 1880s there were 26 colonies promoted in 8 states.[4]
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.
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