Jewish
Agriculturalists 1807- 1887
by Victor
N.Nikitin, St.Petersburg 1887
translated by
Chaim Freedman
The following passages from the Russian
sources have been selected for the vivid picture they provide of life on
the colonies.
The passages have been freely translated and where the
Russian construction was difficult, the general meaning, derived from the
context, has been précised. This free translation has been confirmed by
comparison to the Hebrew work `Jewish Agriculturalists on the Russian
Steppes' (Tel Aviv 1965) which is based largely on the same Russian
sources.
Book Review
By Patricia Eames
V.N. Nikitin 's monograph, "Jewish Farmers:
Historical. Legislative. Administrative, and Conditions of Daily Life in
the Colonies from their Origin to the Present. 1807-1887" appeared in St
Petersburg in1887. It rarely appears now in current bibliographic
references. It is evident that not one of the contemporary Ukrainian
researchers who were authors of a collection of articles ("The Jewish
Population in Greater Ukraine: Records And Documents", (Vip. L Zaporothyo,
1994) about Jewish farm colonization in the Northern Black Sea area ever
referred to this monograph, in reality, it is the basic work for this
subject both for the pre-Revolutionary period .
By Chaim Freedman