Kherson Guberniya
Elizabetgrad District
Berezuvatka-Israelovka-Yaser-Yazer
Israelovka, Israilevka,
Israilovka, Izrailevka,
Izrailovka, Izraylovka,
Izraelevka, Yisrealevka
Berezuvatka, Berezovatka (modern name)
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Casa Nosen - Israelovka |
Photo © Mario Jeifetz
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Isrealovka Izrailovka Israilovka
48° 01'/ 32° 36'
There are
modern Ukrainian Oblast maps that show Berezovatka at
this location.
Berezovatka (Israilevka) is located 9 km Northeast of Ustinovka and 30 km East of Bobrinets.
Index to Names on AMS 1:250,000 Maps of Eastern Europe, Series N501. 1966 V.1 & V.2
Israilevka is on Map NM-36-11 Lat 48 01, Long 32 36 (the Index lists a Lat of 47 57 which is not correct).
Israilevka is on the, Edition 2 map of NM-36-11.
Today I have found what I believe is
our Israelovka-Yaser, according to Max Baryshnikov,
who wrote to Ukraine Sig:
"Dear Sir,
We have read Your letter about Israilovka and this is
what I found by the
moment:
1. I found 2 places with old names similar with Israilovka
A) Iz(s)railovka now Berezuvatka, Ustynivskiy rayon (region in
Ukraine), Kirovogrdaskaya oblast Ukraine.
B) Israilovka, now Grabarivka, today part of Serebrinci
silska rada
(local authority), Mogilev-Podilskiy rayon, Vinnitskaya oblast, 24015
Ukraine.
Sincerely Yours,
Max Baryshnikov
igrc@vru.gov.ua "
I'm attaching
a map where the place (Berezuvatka) is shown
from Microsoft Atlas Encarta (I have drawn it up). I have found it by a chance, when looking for my grandfather's friends birthplaces.
If you try to find it, looking for "Berezuvatka"
in you will appear near Jarkov. The information
and the place are according to other facts I know at this moment. In the
surroundings of the village there are a lot of little towns from were was originated the "Kherson Group" in which
my family was included, they were from Israelovka-Yaser. The group were
about 100 colonists families that arrived in Argentina in 1904/1905 under the
Baron Hirsch's Jewish Colonization Association. They settled in Monigotes (some names published in Israelovka's
site), a little town close to Moises Ville, and in Santa Isabel
colony, a settlement near Concordia, Entre Rios province.
Today
I know that my ancestors born in Israelovka were NOT
originated in Vinnitskaya Oblast as previously shown in the site. They were neighbors and relatives
and friends of those who integrated the Kherson group originated in Bovrinets, Novo-Paltovka, Berezovka, all places in Ustinovka
(Ustynivskiy) region, Kirovograd (Elizibethgrad)
province.
Mario N. Jeifetz
Kiriat Bialik
mjeifetz@bezeqint.net
Population: 1,227'
At the end of 1885 there were 76
families in the colony.
From: Livne, Zvi. 1965.
Jewish Agriculturists on the Plains of Russia. Merchavyah,
Israel. (Hebrew)
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The population of
the colony Yazer was several times greater than
that of Sehaidak, and it
was founded several years earlier, with the assistance of the Russian
government which sent agricultural counselors of German extraction there. A reminder of this were the several farms on the outskirts
of the colony belonging to German Christians, the descendants of those
counselors who also settled there. Why was the Hebrew name Yazer given to the colony? Rabbi Drabkin
of Yazer told me that the place had a Russian name
of the Provoslavic Church, but the Jewish settlers
wanted to change it to a Hebrew name. They checked and found that in the
Bible in the Book of Numbers (Chapter 32, verse 3) the Targum Onkelos [the ancient Aramaic translation] translates the
name Yazer as komrin
[priests] and that is how they changed the former Russian name to the
Hebrew Yazer. Over time the Russian government
called the colony Israilovka, but the Jews and the
neighboring Christians called it Yazer. The farmers of Yazer,
aside from growing winter and summer field crops also grew fruit trees,
especially grapes. Because the regional administration (volost
in Russian) was in the colony, the seat of the lending society and mutual
assistance for the two colonies was also in Yazer. -Haim Cohen
(Kfar Vitkin |
Surnames:
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Name |
Father |
Surname |
Age |
Born place |
Died |
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Hilel |
Elcana Acohen |
Kohan |
45 |
Iazer |
29-Oct-33 |
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Braine |
Abraham Ostrovsky |
Woloshin |
67 |
Iazer |
10-Nov-36 |
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Eliezer |
Elcana Acohen |
Kohan |
43 |
Iazer |
17-Nov-36 |
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Iacov |
Yehoshua |
Enguelberg |
74 |
Iazer |
26-May-49 |
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Dov |
Elcana Acohen |
Kohen |
60 |
Iazer |
05-Dic-46 |
Here
are my grandfather friends, born in Israelovka (Yazer or Iazer) and buried
in Monigotes,
a Jewish colony
near Moises Ville
" Memoirs left by a
relative say she grew up in Izrailovka (she used
various spellings), "and the Jews used to call it Yazev".
She locates it near Bobrinets in the Kherson Gub. Her father on his citizen ship
papers say he is from Izrailovka (Israelofsky on his papers) near Odessa."
Barry Chernick
Bellevue, WA
Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust
Editor - Shmuel Spector
This encyclopedia has information about two different shtetl of Israilovka.
Izrailovka
(I) (1944, Berezovatka) Kirovograd Dist, Ukraine.
Agricultural settlement founded in 1807. 118 Jews in 1812...
Izrailovka (II) Vinnitsa Dist. Named after a J.Iessee, six Jews in
1787...
Articles on the web about Izrailevka and war crimes.
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War Crimes: Calling Australia Home |
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Nazis Find An Aussie Sanctuary |
Web sites that mention Izrailevka
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Law #354 from the Levander Index. This law from 1837 mentions “Izrailevka” in referring to Jewish colonies in the Kherson gubernia. |
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German Farming Achievements in the Black Sea Region - 1825 (H. Rempel) |
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There are four record groups, birth, death, census, and marriage listed for “Izrailovka Colony” Kirovograd Oblast
Sources: Mario Jeifetz; WWWW: PHR1; Jewish Encyclopedia
JGFF Researcher: Mario Jeifetz; Barry Chernick
