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Dubrovsky, Gertrude Wishnick was born on March 10, 1926 in New York City. Daughter of Benjamin and Esther Raisa (Katz) Wishnick.
( The Land Was Theirs is a bout Farmingdale, New Jersey, ...)
The Land Was Theirs is a bout Farmingdale, New Jersey, a community of Jewish farming communities in the United States established with the help of the Jewish Agricultural Society. The 50 year history of Farmingdale provides a perspective on the pressures, problems, and satisfactions of rural Jewish life as experienced in one community. Beginning in 1919, the community grew around the small town of Farmingdale, when two Jewish families pooled their resources to establish a farm. The community evolved gradually as unrelated individuals with no previous farm experience settled and then created the institutions and organizations they needed to sustain their Jewish life. By 1945 Farmingdale was one of the leading egg-producing communities in the United States, and contributed in large measure to New Jersey’s reputation as the egg basket of America.” The Land Was Theirs draws from life-history interviews with 120 farmers, from the author’s personal experiences, and from a variety of private and community papers and documents. They are the pieces from which a full picture of a single Jewish farm community emerges.
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(Between December 1938 and September 1939, 10,000 children...)
Between December 1938 and September 1939, 10,000 children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland were placed by their parents on trains - Kindertransport - bound for England, where they survived the Holocaust. Forced to remain behind, their parents were not as fortunate. The children's care and education in England became the responsibility of the Refugee Children's Movement, which consisted of 12 regional and about 100 local voluntary committees. Six cousins from Leipzig, aged 7 months to 14 years, were among the 2,000 children who arrived in Cambridge, and were under the supervision of both the Movement and of the Cambridge Refugee Children's Committee. The story of these children brings to life the issues faced by all those who travelled on the Kindertransports and the way in which the Committee tried to cope with their responsibilities. Although a number of memoirs have been written on this topic, Six from Leipzig puts the subject into historical perspective and will be invaluable to those who want to know how rescue was organised, by whom, and under what circumstances. It will be of special value to students of Holocaust history, and for those who are concerned with the care of traumatized children. It also emphasises the important role played by women in the rescue of these children, and in running refugee children's committees; a fact that has not received the attention that it deserves.
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Dubrovsky, Gertrude Wishnick was born on March 10, 1926 in New York City. Daughter of Benjamin and Esther Raisa (Katz) Wishnick.
AB, Georgian Court College, Lakewood, New Jersey, 1956. Master of Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1959. Doctor of Education, Columbia University, New York City, 1974.
Teacher, Keyport (New Jersey) grammar school, 1956-1957; teacher, Point Pleasant (New Jersey) H.S., 1959-1961; assistant professor, Trenton (New Jersey) State College, 1964-1966; program director, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York City, 1975-1981; freelance journalist, writer, New York Times, New York City, since 1979; independent scholar, researcher, Princeton, since 1980; researcher, writer, assistant to president, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Tchg., Prinecton, New Jersey, 1982-1985; Yiddish instructor Center Jewish Life, Princeton University, 1974-1995. President Documentary III, Princeton, since 1980. Specialist in field of America Jewish rural history.
(Between December 1938 and September 1939, 10,000 children...)
( The Land Was Theirs is a bout Farmingdale, New Jersey, ...)
Municipal committeeperson Democratic Party, Princeton, since 1980, chair, 1982-1984. Member Commission on Aging, Princeton, since 1980, chair, 1991-1993. Member Association for Jewish Studies, American Jewish History Society, American Jewish Archives, Princeton Research Forum.
Married Jack Dubrovsky, February 24, 1946 (divorced September 1975). Children: Richard, Steven, Benjamin. Married Sidney Gray, June 13, 1976 (divorced June 1997).