The founders called their colony Sholem. which means peace. But Sholem turned out to be merely another tragedy of the Jew seeking peace and finding it not. In the words of Jeremiah. "Peace. peace. but there is no peace." From that tilne until 1.881 no organized movement toward the farm took place. but the streams of immigration set in motion as a result of the fiendish persecution of the Jews in eastern Europe caused feverish efforts to be put forth to place thse unfortunates on farms as a means toward their early rehabilitation and their easier absorption into our body politic. No less than 15 cololnizing efforts were projected in the eighties inLouisiana. Oregon.
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