Publications
The South Jersey Culture & History Center publishes works of note pertaining to the
South Jersey community. Most are available at Second Time Books in Mount Laurel, through
Amazon or Barnes & Noble online or through direct mailing from the South Jersey &
Culture Center.
91ÊÓƵ³ÉÈËÍøÕ¾'s Local History Press
The mission of the South Jersey Culture & History Center at 91ÊÓƵ³ÉÈËÍøÕ¾ is to foster awareness within local communities of the rich cultural and historical heritage of southern New Jersey, to promote the study of this heritage, especially among area students, and to produce publishable materials that provide a lasting and deepened understanding of this heritage.
We republish noteworthy, hard-to-find titles and publish new works by contemporary authors and scholars. SoJourn, our annual journal, presents the studies of local historians. University students enrolled in the SJCHC editing internship assist in editing the books and articles, designing the layouts, and setting type; the directors of the South Jersey Culture & History Center oversee the publication of all titles. Together we proudly maintain 91ÊÓƵ³ÉÈËÍøվ’s local history press.
See our Fall 2023 Catalog of SJCHC publications. There are thirty titles, with several forthcoming, and twelve issues of SoJourn.
Mark Demitroff's Soggy Ground: A Geography of Pine Barrens Wetlands is available from Second Time Books in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, and by writing Tom Kinsella below. Price for this excellent study is $39.95.
Collecting South Jersey: A Bibliography of South Jersey Poetry by Stephanie Allen
Titles on Jewish Farming in South Jersey
Migdal Zophim & Farming in the Jewish Colonies of South Jersey, by Moses Klein and others
A republication pairing Moses Klein’s 1889 essay collection Migdal Zophim with contemporary reports on life in the colonies of Alliance, Rosenhayn, and Carmel from 1882 to 1907.
xxiv + 266 pages, illustrated, paperback. ISBN: 978-1-9478898-9-7. $19.95
The Jewish Colonies of South Jersey, by William Stainsby
This 1901 report by the Bureau of Statistics of New Jersey offers a rare look at life in the Jewish colonies of Alliance, Rosenhayn, Carmel, and Woodbine in the decades after their founding by refugees escaping the pogroms of Eastern Europe.
53 pages, photographs, paperback. ISBN: 978-1-947889-94-1. $9.95
Adventures in Idealism: The Life of Professor H. L. Sabsovich, Founder of Woodbine, New Jersey, by ÂKatharine Sabsovich
Adventures in Idealism (1922) is the biography of H. L. Sabsovich (1861–1915), the founder of Woodbine, New Jersey, and champion of Jewish farming in America.
289 pages, photographs, index, paperback. ISBN-13: 978-1-947889-06-4. $15.95
Back to the Land: Alliance Colony to the Ozarks in Four Generations, by Ruth Weinstein
Weinstein’s beautiful memoir, which details life among the early settlers of the Alliance Colony, is informed by her own experience as a homesteader in the Ozarks, where she has lived for forty-five years on forty acres in Searcy County, Arkansas.
225 pages, photographs, paperback.
ISBN: 978-1-947889-98-9. $16.95
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A Farmer’s Daughter: Bluma, by Bluma Bayuk Rappoport Purmell and Felice Lewis Rovner
Farm girl, nurse, nursing home operator, wife of a prison doctor, world traveler, award winning painter, speaker, author, and the oldest living descendant of the founders of Alliance, New Jersey, Bluma Bayuk Rappoport Purmell, tells a story that spans over a century.
xvi + 301 pages, illustrated, hardcover.
ISBN: 978-1-947889-12-5. $29.95
Growing American: The Alliance Agricultural Colony in South Jersey, by Tom Kinsella
A readable introduction to the ÂAlliance Colony, the first successful Jewish farming community in the United States. It describes the origins of the colony in 1882 and relates stories of its development into the neighboring Âvillages of Norma, Alliance, and Brotmanville.
111 pages, color, index, paperback.
ISBN: 13: 978-1-947889-08-8. $26.95
For more information, please contact Tom Kinsella at Thomas.Kinsella@stockton.edu. We’ll be happy to provide pricing and send along copies of these titles.
Information can also be obtained by standard mail. Please address queries to the address below:
Tom Kinsella
ARHU/91ÊÓƵ³ÉÈËÍøÕ¾
101 Vera King Farris Drive
Galloway, NJ 08205
