ZALMEN
LIBMAN (SOLOMON LIEBMAN) (1888-February 7, 1960)
He was born in the town of Snyaditin
(Snyadyn’?), near Petrikov (Pyotrków, Pietrykaŭ),
Byelorussia. He was the son of an
elementary school teacher. He studied
with his father and at yeshivas. At age
sixteen he received ordination into the rabbinate, but he had a break down and
turned his attention to secular education.
In 1907 he immigrated to the United States, took up various jobs, in
1917 became a farmer, later was a hotel owner, and at the same time was one of
the advocates on behalf of the Jewish agricultural and craft centers on
cooperative foundations in America. He
was a close collaborator of Dr. Chaim Zhitlovsky in the well-known Hightstown
Project. He published articles on Jewish
colonization matters in: Tog (Day), Morgn-zhurnal (Morning journal), Forverts (Forward), and Der idisher farmer (The Jewish farmer)—in
New York (1925-1945), as well as in English-language Jewish serials in New York
and New Haven. His books would include: Idishe farmeray in amerike, ir frage un
leyzung (Jewish farming in America, its issues and solutions), “a
foundational treatise on the state of Jewish farming and hotel management in
America, based upon facts, statistical numbers, and data, as well as a clear
and practical plan of how to solve on the basis of satisfying ideals all the
confused Jewish farmer problems here in this country” (New Haven, 1930), 93
pp. He died in Lebanon, Connecticut.
Sources:
A. Hamer, in Frayhayt (New York)
(January 2, 1935); information from his brother, Herman Libman, in New York.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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