Speaking Yiddish to Chickens by Seth Stern - 9781978831612

Speaking Yiddish to ChickensHolocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms\nAuthor(s): Seth Stern\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978831612, 978-1978831612\nSynopsis\nMost of the roughly 140,000 Holocaust survivors who came to the United States in the first decade after World War II settled in big cities such as New York. But a few thousand chose an alternative way of life on American farms. More of these accidental farmers wound up raising chickens in southern New Jersey than anywhere else. Speaking Yiddish to Chickensis the first book to chronicle this little-known chapter in American Jewish history when these mostly Eastern European refugees including the author's grandparents - found an unlikely refuge and gateway to new lives in the US on poultry farms. They gravitated to a section of south Jersey anchored by Vineland, a small rural city where previous waves of Jewish immigrants had built]