JEWISH FARMER NETWORK
RESOURCE LIBRARY

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Return and Repair: The Rise of Jewish Agrarian Movements in North America by Zachary A. Goldberg, Margaret Weinberg Norman, Rebecca Croog, Anika M. Rice, Hannah Kass, and Michael Bell (2024)
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Farming is Jewish with Shani Mink and SJ Seldin from Judaism Unbound (March 2021) [podcast]
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Ba’Sadeh Podcast with Shani Mink (July 2022) [podcast]
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Jewish Farms are booming. Now the farmers want to grow their community by Ben Harris (2020)
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‘Harvesting a participatory movement’: Initial participatory action research with the Jewish Farmer Network by Anika Rice and Zachary Goldberg (2021)
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Jewish Ancestral Plant Magic w/ Dori Midnight from Jewish Ancestral Healing
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A Frog Under the Tongue: Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe by Marek Tuszewicki (2021) [book]
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Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews (2021) by Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel [book]
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The Shmita Source Book by Yigal Deutscher, Anna Hanau, and Nigel Savage (2021) [Book]
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An Introduction to Sabbath Agriculture by Jorian Polis Schutz & Yigal Deutscher [book]
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“Why we are letting our homestead rest for a year” from The Schoolhouse Life (October 2021)
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Judaism Unbound’s Shmita Series [podcast]
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Nobody Owns the Land with Rabbi David Seidenberg
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Shmita Hives with Asher Edes and Kizmet Alexander
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Every 7th Rosh Hashanah with Nigel Savage
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The Shmita Project with Hannah Henza and Sarah Young
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Seasons of our Joy: A Modern Guide to the Jewish Holidays by Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow (1991) [Book]
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Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons by Rabbi Jill Hammer (2006) [Book]
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For Times Such as These by Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg and Rabbi Ariana Katz (2024) [Book]
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On Stewarding Stolen Land as Displaced People with Rel B from The Place Love Project
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Miknaf Haaretz
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“Linke Fligl ends with love” on Can we talk? Podcast (October 2022)
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Land, Labor, Legacy: In Conversation with Southern Jewish Farmers from the Institute of Southern Jewish Life (November 2022) [podcast]
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How Jewish Farmers are Divesting from White Supremacy by Anika Rice and Zachary Goldberg (2021)
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Transgender Jews are finding a safe haven in an unexpected place: the farm by Ben Harris (2021)
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Kabbalah and Ecology: God’s Image in the More-Than- Human World by Rabbi David Mevorach Seidenberg (2015) [Book]
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An Introduction to Sabbath Agriculture by Jorian Polis Schutz & Yigal Deutscher [Book]
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"Behar Bechukotai" Talking Agricultural Torah with Adamah Fellowship Director Carly Sugar (May 2021)
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Halakha of the Harvest with Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper
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Manhattan on the Farm with Jewish educator, Elyssa (April 2022) [podcast]
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Jewishly Rooted with Coastal Roots from Judaism Unbound (July 2022) [podcast]
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Jews in American Agriculture: An Annotated Bibliography by Irwin Weintraub, 2007
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Jews in American agriculture; the history of farming by Jews in the United States by Jewish Agricultural Society (1954)
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The Land Was Theirs: Immigrant Farmers in the Garden State by Gertrude Dubrovsky (1992)
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Immigrants to Freedom: Jewish Communities in Rural New Jersey since 1882 by Joseph Brandeis (1971)
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Jewish Agricultural Utopias in America, 1880-1910 by Uri D Herscher (1981)
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Our Jewish Farmers [Book]
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American Jewish Farming Communities by the Yiddish Book Center [Video]
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Harvesting Stones documentary [Video]
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Professor Jonathan Dekel-Chen on talking about the long history of Jewish agricultural life from Abraham through the 21st century from Joy and Conversation (July 2022)
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Connecticut’s Jewish Farmers from Grating the Nutmeg: The Podcast of Connecticut History (2020) [podcast]
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Three Part History of Jewish Farmers in America by S Hertzberg (2009)
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Connecticut Jewish Farmers by Merrie Blocker (2017)
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A New Generation of Jewish Farmers Sees a Fertile Future in South Jersey by Kevin Riordan (2017)
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Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History by Deborah R Weiner (2023) [Book]
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Der Idisher Farmer/ The Jewish Farmer Yiddish Language Publications (1908-1959)
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Russia and Eastern Europe
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On the Jewish Fields of the Ukraina by Issachar Ryback [article]
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Farming the Red Land: Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924–1941 by Jonathan Dekel- Chen (2005)
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Introduction to the Study of the Jewish Agricultural Colonies in the Ukraine by Chaim Freedman (2005) [Article]
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Jewish Agricultural Colonies in Russia by Herman Rosenthal [article]
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Professor Jonathan Dekel-Chen on talking about the long history of Jewish agricultural life from Abraham through the 21st century from Joy and Conversation (July 2022)
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Andrew D. Berns, “The Land is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the Renaissance” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022) from New Books in History
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A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World by Jennifer Grayson [book]
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Meredith Cohen: The Magic of Knowing Your Farmer from Bethelians (2020)
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Jewish Farmer Margaret Hathaway talking about the Maine Bi-Centenial cookbook and growing up Jewish in Maine on Heritage Radio Network’s Let’s Talk About Food Podcast (April 2021)
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Growing Community With Beantown Jewish Gardens from Jewish Boston (May 2021)
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“Why we are letting our homestead rest for a year” from The Schoolhouse Life (October 2021) [podcast]
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Manhattan on the Farm with Jewish educator, Elyssa (April 2022) [Podcast]
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Jewishly Rooted with Coastal Roots from Judaism Unbound (July 2022) [podcast]
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“Linke Fligl ends with love” on Can we talk? Podcast (October 2022) [podcast]
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Ba’Sadeh Podcast with Shani Mink (July 2022) [podcast]
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Land, Labor, Legacy: In Conversation with Southern Jewish Farmers from the Institute of Southern Jewish Life (November 2022) [podcast]
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Transgender Jews are finding a safe haven in an unexpected place: the farm by Ben Harris (2021)
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Transgender Jews are finding a safe haven in an unexpected place: the farm by Ben Harris (2021)
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Cultivating Resilience Podcast from Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSA
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