SECTION 1

INTRODUCTORY    ESSAYS
Harry Boonin
Patricia Eames

Dimitry Feldman

Chaim Freedman

Keith Freedman

Mel Comisarow

SECTION 2

Timeline

SECTION 3

REGIONAL
Western
Podalia
Kherson
Ekaterinoslav

Bessarabia

Crimea

SECTION 4

GEOGRAPHY
SECTION 5

ARCHIVAL RESEARCH

Dimitry Feldman

Chaim Freedman

V.N. Nikitin

Vlad Soshnikov

SECTION 6

HOME and FAMILY

SECTION 7

TRAVEL

DOCUMENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX

SURNAMES

INVENTORY of colony Names
CONTACTS

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

LINKS

A Journey in the Southern-Russian Jewish Colonies

BY L.M.Bramson St.Petersburg 1894."I departed from Petersburg for the purpose of visiting the Jewish colonies in the south. The purpose of my journey was entirely clear to me. I wanted to acquire a visual perception of those places which had only been depicted in my imagination. I had read of them for a long time in books and newspapers and I wanted to see Jewish countryside, Jewish fields, to behold a Jewish economy, Jewish farmers and Jewish peasant children.

Russian Geography

From Our Father's Harvest

BY Chaim Freedman

 "The exact location of the Jewish Agricultural colonies in the Yekaterinoslav Government was a particular problem prior to the publication of the Our Father’s Harvest since they could not be identified on any map available at the time. A map was drafted based on the recollections of William Komesaroff of Melbourne as to the relative alignment of the colonies and the time required to travel by wagon between them.

BOOK REVIEW

MICHOEL ROTENFELD DISCOVERS MAP

In 1983 a detailed large scale map was discovered in the library of the University of Texas by Michoel Rotenfeld
 whose family came from the region. This map was printed in 1955 in the USA by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.

The Mennonite villages
Major German Colonies in South Russia North Dakota State University: Germans from Russia Heritage Collection. German Maps and Villages.

Maps:  Black Sea Area

The Black Sea Settlements Prior to 1918 (Jonathan Sheppard map reprint)

(Drawn in Germany to show location of the German settlements in southern Russia. Includes districts of Bessarabia, Chersson, Taurida, Jekaterinaslaw, Crimea and the western portion of the Don district. The map includes a key for identifying both the German and Russian settlements.)

Maps: Jewish Agricultural Colonies of Ukraine