Farm settlements for Jews which hark back to the days of Brook Farm will be established by a Provisional Commission working under the auspices of the American Jewish Congress, within a few months. The purpose of the farms which are planned as cooperative enterprises, will be “to rehabilitate technologically displaced Jews” who are now unemployed.
A national organization is to be created to direct the work of assigning from 50 to 100 families to each farm. Social and cultural programs are to be worked out later. The present administrative committee, with offices at 122 East 42nd Street, is headed by Dr. Chaim Zhitlovsky, Dean of Jewish Letters and veteran advocate of the “Back to the Land movement of the Jews,” honorary chairman. Chairman of the commission is Benjamin Brown, president of the Producers Distributing Agency, an association of farm cooperatives in eight states.
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