'Living on a Sort of Island': Jewish Refugee Farmers in the American South, 1938–46

The Manumit School, a socialist boarding house, housed refugees for a brief time but was only a transitory place for the family as they searched for permanent settlement. Johnson was a Danish American economist and humanitarian who had previously co-founded the progressive New School for Social Rese...

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Published inAmerican Jewish history Vol. 107; no. 1; pp. 445 - 466
Main Author Sperling, Andrew
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2023
Subjects
Agriculture
Antisemitism
Farmers
Farms
Immigrants
Jewish Americans
Jewish people
Loeb, David
Middle class
Psychology
Refugees
North Carolina
New York
Georgia
United States > US
Virginia
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Summary:The Manumit School, a socialist boarding house, housed refugees for a brief time but was only a transitory place for the family as they searched for permanent settlement. Johnson was a Danish American economist and humanitarian who had previously co-founded the progressive New School for Social Research, a private research university, in 1919. When the Nazis rose to power, Johnson recruited persecuted European scholars to study in New York as part of the New School's "University in Exile," saving their lives in the process. Johnson imagined that it would give Jews an opportunity to practice the romanticized "art of living off the soil," preventing a "ghetto psychology" from developing among immigrants in overcrowded cities.
ISSN:0164-0178
1086-3141
1086-3141
DOI:10.1353/ajh.2023.a909913