Benjamin Brown | |
Native Name: | בנימין ליפשיץ |
Native Name Lang: | yi |
Birth Name: | Benjamin Lipschitz |
Birth Date: | 1885 |
Birth Place: | Tuchyn, Volhynia Governorate, Russian Empire |
Death Date: | 1939 |
Death Place: | New Jersey, United States |
Known For: | Establishment of Roosevelt, New Jersey |
Benjamin Brown (né Lipschitz) (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.