NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS AND INDEX, 1919-1991

Summary: Newspaper clippings (photostats) about Farmingdale and the surrounding Jewish agricultural communities and typescript index. As part of the Farmingdale project, a search was made for newspaper accounts of community activities in the local and Yiddish press. The Asbury Park Evening Press was searched for the dates January 1 to March 31, 1919; 1920; 1945; 1946 and 1953. These dates were chosen because they marked the founding of the community, its most prosperous years, and the beginning of the decline of the poultry industry and the community. The “Index to Selected Newspaper Articles” (in black binder) contains an annotated list of these articles arranged by date as well as an index of names of Jewish Farmingdale residents mentioned in these articles. Selected articles have been photocopied and have been indexed using the subject headings established for the material in the taped interviews.

A run of the weekly newspaper The Freehold Transcript was also examined for the period May 11, 1917 through March 31, 1922, the earliest years of the community. An annotated list was prepared of these articles and several were photocopied.

Two Yiddish newspapers, the Forward and the Morning Freiheit were also searched for the year 1954, and a listing of articles pertaining to Jewish farmers, but not necessarily to Farmingdale, is included in this series, as well as a letter from Eleazar Lifschitz, who did the Yiddish newspaper research for Gertrude Dubrovsky. This series also includes a list of citations and two articles about Farmingdale from the New York Times, dated 1950 and 1980.

Finally, this series contains general newspaper articles about Farmingdale collected by Gertrude Dubrovksy, dating from 1934-1991. These are divided into biographical files on prominent individuals who came from Farmingdale such as folksinger Janis Ian, clippings about the Jewish Community Center, and general clippings about events in Farmingdale and the history of the town.