Agro-Joint agricultural colonies in Crimea and southern Ukraine (1924-1938): Fordism and settlement patterns
Journal: Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Year: 2011

The Agro-Joint project (1924-1938), conceived and directed by the Russian-born American agronomist Joseph Rosen (1877-1949) and promoted by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, was one of the most effective and ambitious philanthropic relief programs envisioned and implemented for the resettlement and «productivization» of Russian Jews as avant-garde farmers in Soviet Crimea and southern Ukraine. The present paper discusses, from a planner and architect’s perspectives, some of the A