Jewish Agricultural Settlement Corporation

The Jewish Agricultural Settlement Corporation (JASC) was the American branch of the Juedische Landarbeit GmbH, an organization that sought to resettle German-Jewish farmers to Brazil, and to a lesser extent to the Dominican Republic, during the 1930s.

The Juedische Landarbeit GmbH (JLA) was founded 1930 by Martin Gerson as a Halutzim organization for teaching German Jews agricultural skills. In cooperation with the Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden, in the late 1930s the organization sought to resettle German-Jewish farmers, primarily in Paraná, Brazil.

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