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Robinson, Leonard George was born on March 11, 1875 in Russia.
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1912. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... The United States The Jewish population in the United States has been estimated as in excess of two millions. In this it stands second only to Eussia, which has a Jewish population of more than six millions. However important and extensive Jewish immigration to other lands may be, it cannot soon compare with that to the United States. This country presents to the Jewish immigrant far greater opportunities in every field of human endeavor--professional, industrial, commercial, and, last but not least, agricultural--than any other place to which fate has as yet directed his steps. It is, therefore, meet and proper that the discussion of the Jewish agricultural movement in the United States should be detailed at length, since its importance is quite out of keeping with the numbers engaged in it. Its significance is mainly due to the potentialities presented and to the spontaneity of its remarkable growth during the last decade. Organized and artificial stimulus ceased at an early period, and the movement has become one by the people. Such organizations as are engaged in fostering it are only acting in the capacity of advisers; merely lending assistance and giving direction to it. The movement of the Jews in the United States toward the farm has gone beyond the capacity of any organization or any number of organizations to control. The most that these organizations can accomplish is to follow the lead set by the immigrants themselves and to cooperate with them as far as the means at their command will permit. EARLIEST AGRICULTURAL EFFORTS In the very earliest period of American history, and even as far back as colonial days, Jews were known to have engaged in agriculture in various parts of the country. Abraham de Lyon brought the wine and silk culture from...
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Robinson, Leonard George was born on March 11, 1875 in Russia.
Expert Joint Congressional Committee on Rural Credits which framed the Federal Farm Loan Act, of 1916. President Cosmopolitan Bank, New York, 1919-1921. General dir.
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Married Betty F. Levey, January 10, 1911 (divorced).