Jewish Farmers
in Russia Fields
(Kherson, Ukraine)
Translation of
Khaklaim yehudim b'arvot Russia
Edited by Tzvi Livneh-Lieberman
Published by Ha'Kibutz Ha'Artzi, Ha'Shomer Ha'Tzair, Merkhavia, Israel 1965
Title |
Author |
Page |
Original
Hebrew |
With the Book |
Israel Ben Eliyahu, Mordekhai Khalili and Mordekhai Simkhoni |
7 |
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Introduction |
Khaim Halperin |
9 |
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Toldot An Historical Review |
Tzvi Livneh-Lieberman |
13 |
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A. An Historical Background |
The Jews during the Partitions of Poland |
15 |
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From the Bad to Worse |
19 |
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The Mission of the Senator Dyezhavin |
21 |
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The Committee for Remedying the State of the Jews and 1804 Regulations |
23 |
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The Atmosphere and Notables |
25 |
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B. The Settlement in Its Beginning |
First Attempts |
31 |
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The First Colonies |
33 |
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The Decline of the First Wave |
35 |
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The Abolition of the Expulsion Decrees from the Villages |
39 |
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The Troubles of the Settlers during the Second Decade |
41 |
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A New Awakening and its Decline |
44 |
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The Second Wave of Settlers |
47 |
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Once Againa Drought and its Consequences |
49 |
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The Accusation |
50 |
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C. The Period of Nikolai the First |
New Proposals |
55 |
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Nikolai's Army Recruitment Decrees |
56 |
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Regulations for the Encouragement of Jewish Settlement |
61 |
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The Siberian Plan |
64 |
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The Retraction from the Siberian Plan |
67 |
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The Return to the Settlement in Kherson |
69 |
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Under the Mercies of Officials and Patrons |
71 |
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Torturous Journeys |
73 |
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Criticism and the Review of the Complaints |
75 |
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The Continuance of the Settlement |
77 |
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The Jewish Public and the Settlement |
79 |
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The New Jewish Affairs Legislation |
82 |
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The settlement in Ekaterinoslav Province |
86 |
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Changes in Management Yet Again |
89 |
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D. The Settlement During the Reign of Alexander the Second |
Years of Calamities |
95 |
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Islavin's Reports |
96 |
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The Problem of the Supervision in the Settlement |
98 |
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About Rabbis and Melameds |
100 |
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Kherson's and Ekaterinoslav Colonies are Center Stage Again |
102 |
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Improvement and Stabilization |
105 |
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The Situation after the Peasants' Emancipation, during the 1860s |
107 |
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Klaus's Report in 1870 |
111 |
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E. Acclimatization and Struggles |
When the Hatred Waves Swell |
115 |
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Under the Signs of Awakening and Renewal |
116 |
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The Settlement Movement at a Turning Point |
119 |
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The Census of 18989 |
122 |
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Estate Owners and Lessees |
124 |
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Under Signs of Wealth and Progress |
126 |
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In the Days of the World War and Russian Revolution |
128 |
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F. Flourishing Ahead of the Holocaust |
The Settlement is Renewed with the Assistance of Jewish Organizations |
134 |
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The Settlement Enterprise at its Peak |
136 |
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The Decline and its Reasons; the Holocaust |
140 |
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Folklore Chapters |
Ba'arva (On the Prairie) |
David Tverdovsky |
145 |
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Poems of Remembrance |
Mordekhai Pitkin |
177 |
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Memories |
Sdeh Menukha Ha'Gdola |
Menakhem Ben-Sadeh |
185 |
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Sdeh Menukha Ha'Ktana |
Tzvi Shadmi, Sara Shadmi, Leibel Kahanov, Yehuda Menukhi, BenTzion Komarov, Shternah Ninberg, Mordekhai Simkhoni, Israel Ben Eliyahu, Mordekhai Khalili, Rakhel Pnini, Azriel Pnini
|
189 |
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Sehaidak |
Khaim Cohen, Tzipora Kaminker, Avraham Toren & Israel Zeltzer |
231 |
|
Netchayevka |
Moshe Avigal (Beigel) |
241 |
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Novo-Vitebsk |
Rivka Guber |
248 |
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Ruzhany |
Mordekhai Guber |
256 |
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Kil'yanovka |
Breina Likhtman |
257 |
|
NovoPoltavka |
Yehoshua Medem, Rachel Yehudai |
260 |
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Nahar Tov Ha'Gdola [Greater Nahar Tov] |
Israel Betzer, Yehudit Guzman, Nesya Avidov, Khaia Berkin, Atara and Nakhman Parag, Yehoshua Dukhin, A Gurevitz, Leah Palkov-Lev, Itah Hurvitz, Moshe Yevzori-Yevzorikhin, Yehudit Simkhoni and Yehuda Yevzori |
267 |
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YefehNahar and Dobroye |
Yehoshua BarDromah, Tzipora BarDromaGallili |
341 |
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Pavlova and Konstantinova |
Arye Rozhenski |
348 |
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Inguletz |
Malka A'haroni |
350 |
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Memories about the Colonies After the Revolution |
The Colonies during the Days of Calamities |
Mordekhai Simkhoni (Geva) |
354 |
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In the Hakhshara [Pioneer Training] in the Colonies |
Zeev Dor Sinai |
359 |
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The Volga Guard Group |
Israel Heller |
362 |
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A Stack of Letters from the Colonies |
Yehuda Erez |
371 |
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The Colonies after the Revolution |
David Tribman |
376 |
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The Rehabilitation of the Jewish Agricultural Colonies in Southern Ukraine |
Agronomist B. Gorshtein |
383 |
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From the Literature |
A Jewish Colony in Russia in the Year 1823 |
|
389 |
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Jews who Work the Land |
Yosef Perl |
393 |
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The Kingship Gives Land to the Jews |
Mendele Mokher Sfarim |
397 |
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Jews who Work the Land |
Aviezer Mi'Kandiya |
401 |
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Appendices |
|
403 |
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Appendix A Stopping the Settlement in the Western Provinces (In 1859) |
405 |
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Appendix B The Agricultural Settlement throughout Russia in the Year 1856 |
408 |
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Appendix C The Settlement in Kherson and Ekaterinoslav at the end of 1885 |
409 |
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Appendix D The State of the Jewish Settlement in the Western Provinces at the End of 1880's |
411 |
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Appendix E The Jewish Settlement in Bessarabia |
412 |
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Appendix F A review of the Agriculture in the Jewish Colonies in the Ukraine (Until 1926) |
415 |
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Appendix G Birobidzhan The autonomous Jewish District |
421 |
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Maps |
|
423 |
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Bibliography |
|
429 |
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Dates in the History of the Jewish Agricultural Settlement |
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430 |
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List of Pictures |
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Indices
Name Index
Organizations of and for Jews
Jewish Colonies |