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
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Families apply to leave their homes.
1807 -
1858: There was a continual flight to advertised better conditions.
Migration from Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus to the
Jewish Agricultural Colonies in Southern Russia and Moldova
EKATERINOASLAV
Mel Comisarow and Chaim Freedman
organize a locator for
17Jewish Colonies
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Ekaterinoslav
Gurerniya: Alexandrovskii District (10 Colonies); Mariupolskii District (7
Colonies).
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KHERSON
Register of the number Jewish Colonies and their
population in 1881
BY
Harry Boonin
Kherson
Guberniya: Kherson District (18 Colonies); Elizabetgrad District (3 Colonies);
Tiraspolskii; District (1 Colony).
PODALIA
THE BALTA COLONIES
BY Lou Goldman ,
Ben Weinstock and David Chapin
The Letichev District (Podolia) of Ukraine
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MOLDOVA
Bessarabia is a region between the rivers Prut and Dniester. It was a
part of Moldavia before 1812, with several districts under direct Ottoman rule.
After the defeat of the Turks by Russia, between 1812–1918 it became part
of Russia. It was next a part of Rumania between 1918–40; After 1940 it was
returned to Russia. The larger (central) part is in Moldova; the extreme
northern and southern sections in the Ukraine.
LAW MAKES FARMING POSSIBLE
approximately ten thousand people bought private land in the districts of
Kherson, Ekaterinoslav, Tabriya, Bessarabia and Congress Poland
AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN DISTRICTS
BY
Lou Goldman
Farming began on a small scale in the districts of Vilna, Kovno,
Grodno, Vitebsk and Minsk.
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