Jewish settlers came to Clarion in Utah seeking a real chance to escape the poverty and stress of life in the ghettos of eastern cities and to build a haven from European pogroms and American hardship for themselves and their families. The colony’s name reflected a broader hope of calling Jews back to the land for spiritual and physical revival. Benjamin Brown recommended the Utah site to the Association and led the settlers there. On their forty-acre farms, the colonists raised wheat, alfalfa, and oats and kept chickens and cows, while the Association subsidized families with a weekly stipend to ease the transition from city life to farming. At its height, more than two hundred men, women, and children lived in the colony, and over 2,800 acres were under cultivation. Relations with local Mormon farmers proved valuable because they helped the Jewish colonists gain experience in working the land and raising animals. But tragedy marked the colony’s life: the Piute Canal failed to deliver promised water, early and late frosts and heavy rainfall flooded fields and caused crop failures, lack of experience worsened these natural calamities, and dissension rooted in ideology, missed expectations, and personality conflicts weakened morale. The deaths of two farmers and the loss of two babies further weakened the will to remain. In 1915, the colony could not make payment on the land, and the State of Utah foreclosed. Most colonists returned to their former homes in eastern cities. Still unwilling to give up the dream, half a dozen Jewish families took up land near the Clarion tract and successfully farmed into the late 1920’s, but the obstacles to success remained too great to sustain the experiment or inspire a broader movement back to the soil. Their history was one of failure, but their legacy was hope, determination, and struggle against insurmountable odds.