Foreign Office 1894. Miscellaneous Series. No. 323. Reports on Subjects of General and Commercial Interest. Argentine Republic. Report on Baron Hirsch’s Jewish Colonisation Scheme.

Prepared by British Vice-Consul in Buenos Aires, Willam S. H. Gastrell, this reports evaluates the success of the Argentine Jewish Colonization Scheme founded by Baron de Hirsch in 1891 for the relief of Jews suffering from persecution. “This remarkable philanthropic scheme for the establishment of Agricultural Colonies in South America for the benefit of Russian Jews has, so far, succeeded beyond all expectation and it has now been shown that even those Jews formally occupied exclusively in town occupations and destitute of all agricultural knowledge, can become satisfactory agricultural colonists if practically taught and aided in their work, a fact hitherto doubted and often denied.”