n 1909, the first Exhibition of Jewish Farmers of America was held in New York during Sukkot, the Feast of Booths. Funded by a program that helped Jewish immigrants avoid the squalid tenements of overcrowded urban areas, the exhibition’s backers loaned these former artisans and mechanics money to start farms in 20 states and Canada. The U.S. crop of Jewish farmers grew from about 8,000 in 1909 to 90,000 in 1930. Sixty years after the exhibition, a descendant of those immigrants hosted the most famous party in history, when Max Yasgur’s upstate New York farm accommodated the Woodstock music festival in 1969.