Casaubon’s Book: Why “Jewishfarmer?”

1. December 2008, 11:32 Uhr

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Every so often, I get an email enquiring about my email handle “Jewishfarmer.” They want to know why it would matter that a farmer was Jewish, or (if they are Jewish) why I would want to advertise it. More recently, I’ve gotten a lot more such queries, and I know I have a lot of new readers, so I thought it might be worth answering the question.

I actually have a couple of answers, from the light to the serious. One of them is “Well, it wasn’t taken.” That is, there are sufficiently few agrarian Jews out there in the US (not none, and the agricultural history of Judaism in the US is quite fascinating) that being both Jewish and a farmer is something which spared me the necessity of choosing something like “Sharon22608? as my email handle.