Jewish Agricultural Colonies in Russia - part one
by Harry D. Boonin
reprinted with his permission from ROOTS-KEY,
Newsletter of Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles.
Spring 1991
| As early as 1806 1,500 families living in the northern parts of the Pale of Settlement, numbering some 7,000 souls, applied to emigrate within the Russian Empire to engage in agricultural pursuits. Many of these applicants eventually settled in Kherson and Ekaterinoslav Guberniyas. During the balance of the 19th century, Jewish agricultural colonies did develop so that by 1900 some one hundred thousand Russians Jews lived on the land.¹ Surveys of this part of our history have been produced.² Recently while looking through an historical book on the Russian pogroms of 1881, I found the list reproduced below: |
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Appendix E: A Register of the number of Jewish Colonies and their population in 1881 |
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| Colony | census:male | census:female | actual:male | actual:female |
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Kherson Guberniya |
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| A. Kherson District | ||||
| Big Seudeminycha (Siedeminukha¹) | 372 | 507 | 706 | 771 |
| Little Seudeminycha (¹) | 135 | 168 | 215 | 246 |
| Bobrovii Ku (Bobrovy Kut;¹ Bobrov Kut¹) | 306 | 333 | 611 | 596 |
| Big Nagartav (Bolshoi Nigertal¹) | 291 | 254 | 426 | 414 |
| Little Nagartav (Maly Nargatal¹) | 66 | 78 | 94 | 95 |
| Efiger (Yefingartz¹) | 335 | 328 | 562 | 575 |
| Inguletz (¹) | 545 | 549 | 982 | 930 |
| Kamenka (¹) | 162 | 203 | 250 | 308 |
| Izluchistaya (Stalindorf) | 201 | 210 | 334 | 337 |
| New Berislav | 143 | 129 | 269 | 242 |
| Lvova | 414 | 381 | 638 | 628 |
| Novopoltavka | 304 | 384 | 643 | 705 |
| Romanovka | 269 | 382 | 523 | 567 |
| New Vitebsk | 169 | 184 | 349 | 313 |
| New Podolsk | 162 | 136 | 229 | 186 |
| New-Kovno | 181 | 212 | 307 | 302 |
| New-Zhitomir | 136 | 139 | 203 | 208 |
| Dobraya | 445 | 403 | 761 | 683 |
| B. Elizabetgrad District | ||||
| Gromoklaya | 85 | 63 | 140 | 123 |
| Israelevka | 368 | 344 | 599 | 551 |
| Sagaidak | 178 | 169 | 297 | 286 |
| C. Tiraspolskii District | ||||
| Volnaya | 134 | 125 | 201 | 185 |
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Ekaterinaslaw Guberniya |
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| A. Alexandrovskii District | ||||
| # 1 New Zlatopol | 155 | 298 | 306 | 424 |
| # 2 Veselaya | 63 | 81 | 150 | 150 |
| # 3 Krasnoselka | 122 | 183 | 243 | 290 |
| # 4 Mezheretz | 104 | 160 | 205 | 322 |
| # 5 Trudolyubovka | 93 | 147 | 189 | 194 |
| # 6 Nechevka | 77 | 105 | 150 | 136 |
| # 8 Priyutnaya | 56 | 143 | 136 | 200 |
| # 9 Roshkoshnaya | 49 | 96 | 118 | 169 |
| #10 Bogadarevka | 90 | 159 | 195 | 260 |
| #11 Gorkaya | 69 | 107 | 168 | 198 |
| B. Mariupolskii District | ||||
| # 7 Grafskaya | 71 | 96 | 121 | 121 |
| #12 Zelyenoe Polye | 133 | 160 | 262 | 272 |
| #13 Nadezhnaya | 144 | 152 | 250 | 248 |
| #14 Sladkovodnaya | 62 | 96 | 123 | 121 |
| #15 Zatishe | 111 | 221 | 214 | 266 |
| #16 Ravnopol | 109 | 136 | 148 | 174 |
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#17 Khlebodarevka |
56 |
163 |
83 |
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1. The Jews in Poland and Russia: Bibliographical Essays, by Gershon David Hundert and Gershon C. Bacon. Indiana University Press, 1984, P. 157. 2. Evrei Zemledeltsv (Jewish Farmers; historical, administrative, legal, and day-to-day conditions in the colonies from the time of their origin to our day, 1807-1887) by Viktor N. Nikitin (1887). In Russian. 3. Materialy Dlia Anti-Evresiskikh Porgromov v Russii. (Materials for the History of anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia, Vol. II,) St. Petersburg (Petrograd), 1923, pp. 541, 542. In Russian. Editor's Note: ¹ Mentioned in Avotaynu/XII/3 Soshnikov, Vlad. Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Russia. pp 33-34. |
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