The relationship between Jewish agriculture in the USSR, Jewish sponsors in the USA,
and the Bolsheviks constitutes a fascinating
segment in the history of interwar Jewish cooperation. This book explores the
ideological motives of communal farming and everyday life in Jewish
communities, mostly in Soviet Russia. It addresses this ideological tradition
and its practice from the 19th century and until the establishment of the
State of Israel, demonstrating the ways in which Jews accustomed to the Eastern
European Shtetlekh soon became
efficient farmers. The second part of the book gives and account of communal
farming in the Jewish world in the modern era, providing a fresh outlook on the
negative approach toward Jewish agriculture, traditionally expressed in history
books.