TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bender,Rebecca E.
AU  - Bender,Kenneth M.
TI  - Still
SN  - 9781946163059
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Fargo, ND
PB  - North Dakota State University Press
KW  - Bender family.
KW  - Jewish families
KW  - Great Plains
KW  - History
KW  - Biography
KW  - Jewish farmers
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-340) and index; Prologue -- St. Louis Park, MN, August 1965 -- A shtetl near Odessa, Russia, 1874 -- Odessa, Russia, May 1903 -- En route to North Dakota, July 1906 -- Ashley, ND, August 1906 -- Ashley, ND, 1911 -- Eureka, SD, 1927 -- Rapid City, SD, November 1940 -- Near Cardiff, Wales, June 1944 -- Normandy, France, June 1944 -- Eureka, SD, 1946 -- St. Louis Park, MN, 1969 -- St. Louis Park, MN, 1971 -- Minneapolis, MN, 1976 -- Eureka, Ashley, and beyond, 2005 -- New York, New York, May 2013 -- Epilogue
N2  - More than four hundred Russian and Romanian Jewish homesteaders settled on about eighty-five farms in McIntosh County, North Dakota, beginning in 1905. After clearing rocks and boulders, growing wheat and flax, raising cattle and chickens, and selling cream from their sod houses, most were successful enough to own their own land. This is a history of five generations, a family we meet first as they flee Odessa and last as they make their ways as American Jews and as Dakota farmers, as students and storekeepers, as soldiers and lawyers, and even as a teen in an international competition who stands face-to-face with Netanyahu. Rebecca Bender and Kenneth Bender answer the question recently posed to Rebecca by a newspaper reporter: Are you STILL Jewish?
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