Julius Stern Quotes
In such a colony, the highest capacities of mind and heart, which, as every unprejudiced observer will confess, can readily be discovered in a large number of individuals of our nation, would be sooner and more rapidly developed than our present social life admits of, where so many circumstances unite to stifle the most splendid, most promising natural abilities in the bud.
Stern, long before there was a Zionist movement, proposed an agricultural colony in the United States where Congress was selling land for $1.25 an acre. Many German emigrants came but preferred the individual American style to a colony.
Julius Stern, Mid 19th Century, German Immigrant to the United States, “On the Establishment of a Jewish Colony in the United States,” The Occident and American Jewish Advocate, April 1843
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In France, poor immigrants tended to be clustered into suburban neighborhoods where few jobs were available, the schools were inferior, recreational facilities were sparse, and there were few opportunities to mix with other French residents. Yet, similar correlations between geography and opportunity have existed in almost all parts of the world with the most obvious reflected in the massive worldwide migration to the cities from the rural areas and countryside which took place in the United States in the 20th century and most other nations in the latter part of that century and the beginning of the 21st. Chances in life have been and are very much determined by geography.
