Benjamin Brown
בנימין ליפשיץ
Brown in 1936
Born
Benjamin Lipschitz

1885
Tuchyn, Volhynia Governorate, Russian Empire
Died1939
New Jersey, United States
Known forEstablishment of Roosevelt, New Jersey

Benjamin Brown (né Lipschitz) (Yiddish: בנימין ליפשיץ) (1885 – 1939),[1] was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant to the United States, a social idealist who developed a Jewish Agricultural cooperative settlement in Clarion, Utah, and an Agro-Industrial cooperative settlement in Jersey Homesteads, Roosevelt, New Jersey.[2]

Brown attained wealth through a poultry exchange he established between Western states and New York after the failure of the Clarion effort in 1916. In 1933, Brown attempted to reestablish a new Jewish cooperative effort in rural Monmouth County, N.J. employing seasonally employed Jewish textile workers largely from New York City.

Brown's gravesite in Roosevelt, New Jersey

References

  1. ↑ Skolnik, Fred, ed. (2007). Encyclopaedia Judaica (Second edition. 22 volumes ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.
  2. ↑ Staff. "History Of Roosevelt, New Jersey", Rutgers University Libraries. Accessed February 14, 2011.


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