Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms by Seth Stern non-media an enthralling investigation into family

an enthralling investigation into family secrets

With a rare combination of erudition and insight

Gripping and atmospheric

Israel to America

and songs about love and courtship

Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms by Seth Stern non-media an enthralling investigation into familyMost of the roughly 140,000 Holocaust survivors who came to the United States in the first decade after World War II settled in big cities such as New York. But a few thousand chose an alternative way of life on American farms. More of these accidental farmers wound up raising chickens in southern New Jersey than anywhere else. Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is the first book to chronicle this little known chapter in American Jewish history when these