Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms

Most Holocaust survivors who came to the US after WWII settled in big cities, but some 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 chapter in American Jewish history when these refugees-including the author's grandparents-found an unlikely gateway to new lives in the US on poultry farms. This book relies on interviews,...