OUT OF THE SHTETL AND INTO THE HEARTLAND: What happened when assimilated German Jews tried to settle their Eastern European brethren in rural America?

The article explores the efforts of assimilated German Jews in the late 19th centuries to resettle Eastern European Jewish immigrants into rural America. It mentions that this movement, led by figures like Baron Maurice de Hirsch and organizations such as the Jewish Colonization Association, aimed to promote agricultural settlements in the American interior as a means to integrate and uplift Jewish immigrants while simultaneously protecting the status of assimilated German Jews in urban areas.