Return and repair: the rise of Jewish agrarian movements in North America

Zachary A. Goldberg, Margaret Weinberg Norman, Rebecca Croog, Anika M. Rice, Hannah Kass () and Michael Bell
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Zachary A. Goldberg: Penn State University
Margaret Weinberg Norman: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Rebecca Croog: Wake Forest University
Anika M. Rice: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hannah Kass: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michael Bell: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Agriculture and Human Values, 2024, vol. 41, issue 3, No 14, 1129-1146

Abstract: Abstract Jewish Agrarian Movements (JAM hereafter) in North America express the many different shapes and iterations of Jewish farming on the continent, grounded in historical perspectives that influence current practices and activities. From within this diversity, common threads emerge with much to contribute to agrarian social movements and scholarship. Jewish values of returning (t’shuvah), releasing (shmitah), and repairing (tikkun), along with theories of doikayt (an anti-zionist movement around “hereness”) and radical diasporism, animate JAM’s critical engagement with agri-food systems. As researchers who have both studied and participated in Jewish agrarianism in a variety of U.S. and Canadian contexts, we solidify a series of themes and tensions that emerge from JAM: diaspora and indigeneity, modernity and tradition, Jewish agroecological knowledge production, and lived religion. We argue that, while JAM has not yet been examined thoroughly within critical food scholarship, it has the potential to contribute to broader debates and frameworks within sub-fields such as radical food geographies, critical agrarianism, and decoloniality. Without consideration of JAM as a part the study of food and agriculture, there are risks of marginalization of farmers, activists and researchers of Jewish identity.

Keywords: Jewish farming; Critical agrarian studies; Radical food geographies; Agroecology; Lived religion; Diaspora (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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