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From: "Lee Morse" <>
Subject: Re: [NYSUFFOL] Colonizing Jews..??!!
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:49:01 -0400
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Fascinating! I plan to keep that and look a little further into it. Was it
to provide a better environment for Jews, or did it have a more sinister
purpose? Anyone else interested in researching this a bit?

Let me know. It may be my next major project.

Lee Morse
http://pages.prodigy.net/leemorse/
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Subject: [NYSUFFOL] Colonizing Jews..??!!


> Brooklyn Standard Union
> 25 January 1905
>
> TO COLONIZE JEWS ON LONG ISLAND FARMS
> KING'S PARK, Jan. 25 -
> The Jeffrey SMITH farm of 286 acres and the Theodore
> W. SMITH farm of 210 acres between King's Park and Comac has been sold to
the
> Jewish Agricultural Society of New York City, which has the support of the
> Baron DE HIRSCH fund with a view to colonizing Jews. Only married men are
to
> be received. The idea is to draw the Jews from the crowded sections of the
> East Side in Manhattan and Brownsville, Brooklyn.
>
> Nancy E Lutz
>
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