The Jews’ contribution to agriculture has been both scientific and practical, according to Dr. J. M. Ginsberg, of Rutgers University and the State Agricultural Experiment Station, who addressed the Institute of Jewish Study at the Temple Anshe Emeth on the “Jew in Agriculture.”
Too often, however, the speaker pointed out, the contribution has been in chemistry and physics rather than directly to the agricultural field. “At the present time,” Dr. Ginsberg continued. “agriculture is of vital importance to the Jew, because of the lack of business and unemployment on account of the depression, and because of conditions in Germany. Sixty thousand Jews are seeking footholds on the farms in Palestine and the United States.”
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