Sunrise Colony

1930s American intentional community

The Sunrise Cooperative Farm Community, also known as the Sunrise Colony, was a communal living experiment founded by Jewish anarchists on 10,000 acres of farmland near Saginaw, Michigan, between 1933 and 1936, during the Great Depression.[1]

References

  1. ^ Shor 1987b, p. 174.

Further reading

  • Cohen, Joseph Jacob (1957). Woodcock, George (ed.). In Quest of Heaven: The Story of the Sunrise Co-Operative Farm Community. New York: Sunrise History Publishing Committee. OCLC 971416359.
  • Fogarty, Robert S. (1980). "Cohen, Joseph". Dictionary of American Communal and Utopian History. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 23–24. ISBN 978-0-313-21347-2. OCLC 251590189.
  • Fogarty, Robert S. (1980). "Sunrise Community". Dictionary of American Communal and Utopian History. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 167–168. ISBN 978-0-313-21347-2. OCLC 251590189.
  • Lemieux, Christina M. (1990). "The Sunrise Cooperative Farm Community: A Collectivist Utopian Experiment". Communal Societies. 10: 39–67. ISSN 0739-1250. OCLC 474082694.
  • Oved, Iaácov (1988). "Sunrise and Anarchist Communities". Two Hundred Years of American Communes. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books. pp. 311–331. ISBN 0-88738-113-8.
  • Richardson, Mark (November 2015). "Prairie Farm: 10,000 Acres of Agricultural History". Michigan History. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  • Shor, Francis (1987a). "The Utopian Project in a Communal Experiment of the 1930s: The Sunrise Colony in Historical and Comparative Perspective". Communal Societies. 7: 82–94. ISSN 0739-1250. OCLC 474082694.
  • Shor, Francis (May 1987b). "An American Kibbutz? The Sunrise Colony and the Utopian Problematics in Comparative Perspective". In Gorni, Yosef; Oved, Iaácov; Paz, Idit (eds.). Communal Life: An International Perspective. International Conference on Kibbutz and Communes. Efal, Israel: Yad Tabenkin. pp. 174–183. ISBN 978-0-88738-150-8. OCLC 466110295.
  • Spector, Norman (1958). The Sunrise Colony: A Case Study of the Economic Failure of a Utopian Socialist Community (Ph.D.). Ohio State University.
  • Sutton, Robert P. (2004). "Sunrise". Communal Utopias and the American Experience: Secular Communities, 1824–2000. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 122–127. ISBN 978-0-275-97553-1.

External links

  • Papers at the University of Michigan

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