Steve Diamond writes: “I have finally retired from my environmental engineering consultancy and have converted to a historian. My first paper, titled ‘What Happened to the Agriculture in the Jewish Agricultural Colony in Woodbine, N.J.,’ can be accessed via Academia.edu. It explains why the farming initiative for Russian Jewish immigrants, sponsored by the Baron de Hirsch Fund of New York City at the end of the 19th century, did not succeed. However, what was the first self-governing Jewish community since the fall of Jerusalem did go on to become a successful industrial community for more than 65 years. About 4,000 Jews lived in Woodbine at one time or another. Amongst them was my family of origin, as well as Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903–1967), the biologist and researcher who co-invented the combined oral contraceptive pill. I have been asked to present the paper as part of a presentation at the New York Public Library next spring.”
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