Am Olam

The Am Olam movement was a movement among Russian Jews to establish agricultural colonies in America. The name literally meaning "Eternal People" is taken from the title of an essay of Peretz Smolenskin.[1][2] It was as founded in Odessa in 1881 by Mania Bakl (Maria Bahal) and Moses Herder, who called for the creation of Socialist agricultural communities in the United States.[3] Eventually the majority of Am Olam colonies were set up upon a "commercial" rather than communalist basis. In 1880s there were 26 colonies promoted in 8 states.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Am Olam: the History of the Eternal Nation (FROM THE HASKAMOS, VOLUME I; ISBN 0873064836) Hardcover – 1989
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  4. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=25aUbOSwQ44C&pg=PA113


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