The Board of Jewish Education of Atlantic and Cape May Counties and the Sam and Sara Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center present an afternoon with Seth Stern, the author of Speaking Yiddish To Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms. The free program will be held on Thursday, January 18, 2024 from 11:00am – 12:30pm at the Stockton University Atlantic City Campus in the John. F Scarpa Academic Center, in Fannie Lou Hammer Event Room, 3711 Atlantic Ave, Atlantic City.
Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is the first book to chronicle how roughly 1,000 Holocaust survivors – including the author’s grandparents – found an unlikely refuge and gateway to new lives as poultry farmers in southern New Jersey. This book relies on interviews with dozens of these refugee farmers and their children, as well as oral histories and archival records. This is their remarkable story of loss, renewal, and perseverance in the most unexpected of settings.
Seth Stern is a legal journalist and author. Stern’s grandparents were Holocaust survivors who settled on a Vineland, New Jersey, chicken farm, which is where his mother grew up. He co-authored Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion and is a graduate of Harvard Law School.
