Soil and Shul in the Berkshires : The untold story of Sandisfield's Jewish farm colony / Lorraine J. German.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

German, Lorraine J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Farms.

Jewish farmers.

Sandisfield (Mass.)--History--20th century.

Sandisfield (Mass.).

Jewish farmers--Massachusetts--Sandisfield.

Farms--Massachusetts--Sandisfield.

Jews--United States--Genealogy.

Jews.

United States.

Massachusetts--Sandisfield.

Berkshire County (Mass.)--History--20th century.

Berkshire County (Mass.).

Massachusetts--Berkshire County.

Genre:

Genealogy.

History.

Family histories.

Physical Description:

iv, 259 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 26 cm

Manufacture:

United States : The Troy Book Makers, 2018.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2018]

Contents:

The immigrant issue

The Sandisfield colony ; Lou Stone, the Winsted liar ; the strange trial of Joseph Lipsitz

From colony to community ; David Walpiansky's last ride ; Sandisfield and the Great War ; The great Sandisfield moonshine raid

Years of change

Shul and religious life

Back to the land ; the slaughtering barn ; life on a dairy farm

"Rooms rented for the season" ; after the summer, 1934

"The children are bright"

"I want that my family should remember" ; Baranoff family ; Cohen family ; Dryansky family ; Jensky family ; Kaplan family ; Kleiner family ; Lazarowitz family ; Linder family ; Lipsitz family ; Pinksy family ; Pyenson family ; Sandler family ; Sandisfield memories

Epilogue

Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society loans

Founding sponsors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-259).

ISBN:

9780692128060

0692128069

OCLC:

1057702759