Hirsch is a hamlet in the RM of Coalfields in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and is located about 18 miles east of the city of Estevan along Highway 18.

It was the first settlement of the JCA and was named after the founder of the foundation, one of the most important Jewish philanthropists of the 19th century.

[4][5] In Hebrew religion and custom, the dead of the community are afforded great respect and a proper cemetery must be built before other needs are attended to.

During the Dust Bowl crisis of the 1930s, most Jewish families left Hirsch and moved to nearby Winnipeg.

The place is best known for the autobiography of Mrs. Zellickson (also: Zelickson), first name unknown, who immigrated in 1891 and wrote extensively about life on the prairies in 1925, especially about the role of women in it.