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Show Early Utah Jews I are topic of talk A Jewish colony formed in Utah in the early 20th Century will be the subject of a lecture Tuesday, March 10, at 10 a.m. in the Lehi Memorial Building. The lecture, sponsored by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, is free to the public. Robert Alan Goldberg, an associate professor of history at the University of Utah, will discuss the unusual group of 81 Jewish families I who left their homes in easter cities and came to farm land in Gunnison Valley in 1911. Goldberg is the author of "Back to I the Soil," the story of the colony. : Between 1880 and 1920, 2 million ; Jews left their homes in Eastern Europe for the United States. The 81 families who subsequently came to Utah were encouraged by Utah Governor Spry and received financial support from the Mormon Church. The Utah State Land Board sold them 6,000 acres in Gunnison Valley. The land was divided into 40 acre tracts laid out by a civil engineer. The families planted wheat, oats and alfalfa and built attractive frme homes, barns and corrals, and brought with them their fine furniture, fur-niture, china rugs and art works. Goldberg's presentation is one of the Speakers Bureau Lecture Series, sponsored by the Utah Endowment for the Arts. |
