The Generations of Moises Ville

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1900-1902: The Colony Grows up

Noe Cociovich tells in his book “Genesis de Moises Ville” (Ed. Milá, 1987) that in 1899 the colony was already on the right road. With the guide of the J.C.A.’s administrator Miguel Cohen the colonists had found their source of sustenance in the cultivation of alfalfa and the milk production, items that were practically unknown previously in the colony and surroundings. Almost eleven years had lapsed since the arrival of the pioneers of the Weser. The most tragic and discouraging stage, the labour of childbirth - as Cociovich called them - of the creation of the colony, from the sterile insistence in attempting cultivations without probabilities of success, stimulated by the first administrators.

The members of the Grodno group, that had arrived in 1894 and 1895, had already demonstrated sufficiently that those “intellectual litvakes” could taken on and compete in the farm tasks.

It was then, when Cociovich, as representative of the Moises Ville's colonists, proposed to the J.C.A. to recruit a group of Lithuanian families to increase and to populate the colony. They accepted with the condition that this would be an independent administration and without their monetary intervention.  Cociovich would pay for his own trip and the colonists selected in turn they should be paid their tickets for themselves. Also to ease their acclimatization, the JCA demanded that those selected should already have relatives settled down in the colony.

Noe Cociovich, exemplary colonist and visionary leader (1862-1936)

Cociovich traveled to Russia in May 1899, and there he was able to form a group of 49 families that  left of the port of Odesa on 2 June of 1900, after having crossed Russia by train from north to south, a trip of about 1200 kms which took one week. One part of the group settled in “Grupo Wavelberg”, the former colony of Santa Elena, 10 km north from Moises Ville, and part of them in Virginia, 10 km East .

Cociovich continues his story and mentions that the new colonists adapted swiftly and began their rural tasks, which satisfied the J.C.A. so much that they immediately authorized an additonal group of 30 families of Bialystok, formed thanks to the initiative of Mr. Gdalia Bublik. Almost all them settled in a new area close to Moises Ville that they named Linea Bilaystok. 

Group BIALYSTOK - G. Bublik - Exit from Libava February 12 1901. SS Georg.
GUBERNIA	LAST NAME	PEOPLE	Current Last Name	Colonized in
Grodno	KOZEL	4		Bialystok
Grodno	KAPLAN	6
Grodno	GELMAN	12
Grodno	SHOTLENDER	6
Grodno	BURLE	10
Grodno	VOLKOSTAVTSER	9
Grodno	BAHRAH	3
Grodno	KOSMOVSKY	8
Grodno	KOZEL	4
Grodno	BUBLIK	2		Bialystok
Grodno	BUBLIK	5		Bialystok
Grodno	AVGUSTOVSKY	5
Grodno	REIZIN	10
Grodno	SOBOL	5
Grodno	LAVETER	9
Grodno	CHAPLINSKY	8	Kaplinsky	Bialystok
Grodno	KRINSKY	8
Grodno	GANTSER	9
Grodno	GOLDFARB	10
Grodno	OSTROVSKY	7		Bialystok
Grodno	GUTMAN	8		Bialystok
Grodno	ROGOVSKY	6		Bialystok
Grodno	GEBEL	11
Grodno	GIVAND	8
Grodno	KOROL	8
Grodno	ZELTSER	7		Bialystok
Grodno	YANOVSKY	7
Grodno	ROGOVSKY	4
Grodno	ROGOVSKY	4
Grodno	KATS	10	Katz	Bialystok
Grodno	BERKMAN	5		Bialystok
	31 Families	218

 

Later on the Jewish Colonization Association sent to Moises Ville a group of 40 Rumanian families that settled in Zadok Kahn, 15 km west of Moises Ville. For various reasons this group didn't succeed in settling, one being that few families settled in the colony. The Rumanian group aboard the SS Amiral Aube in Havre on 10 Nov 1901 and arrived to Buenos Aires on December 12 of the same year.

The Rumanian Group
LAST NAME	NAME	AGE	Cant.	Current Last Name
ANCELOVICI	Michel	40.0	5
BERCOVICI	Berl	45.0	10	Bercovich
BLUMBERG	Ianen	36.0	5
BRILL	Ioseff	39.0	9
CALMANASI	Iancu	48.0	4
CORNISTEANN	Avram	42.0	9
CHAIMOVICI	Hersch	29.0	7	Jaimovich
DAVIDSOHN	Moise	38.0	10
FHILOVICI	Motis	40.0	6
GARFUNKEL	Itie	37.0	8
GHETZEL	Jaim	40.0	7
GOLDENBERG	Marcu	42.0	9
GOLDSTEIN	Haim	48.0	9
GROSSWALD	Aron Hersch	44.0	7	Groswald
HERMAN	Ianen	45.0	4
ITZICOVICI	Issac	42.0	4	Itzkovich
MARCOVICI	Gedalie	39.0	9	Marcovich
MARTIPAN	Chaim	40.0	5
MEIROVICI	Itie	43.0	10	Meirovich
MEIROVICI	Aron	42.0	10	Meirovich
MENDELOVICI	Feibisch	35.0	8	Mendelovich
MINDES	Schmaie	45.0	6
MORGENSTERN	Smil	40.0	9
MOSCOVICI	David Hersch	40.0	8	Moscovich
MOSCOVICI	Berel	42.0	6	Moscovich
NAFTULI	Leib	48.0	9
OICHIOVICI	David	44.0	9
RACHMIL	Slome	42.0	11	Rajmil
SCHARAGA	Salomon	38.0	8
SCHNEIER	Hertzel	40.0	7
SCHUFER	Avram	28.0	5
SEGAL	Maren	38.0	8
SEGAL	Zeider	42.0	8
SMIL	Moise	48.0	7
SMILOVICI	Schloime	38.0	8	Smilovich
STARK	Leizer	45.0	6
STRUL	Simon	38.0	8
STRUL	Abraham	42.0	7
VADRAR	David	42.0	9	Wadrar
WEISBEIN	Aron	47.0	8
40 families	Total	302

 

Cociovich left for a second trip to Russia on May 24, 1901, with the same instructions and conditions of the previous trip. Little is written about this trip. “January 5 1902 embarked on the Libava with 31 families, 217 people. He accompanied the group till Havre and returned immediately to Russia to continue with his mission. He left for Argentina with a second group of 25 families from the port of Libava on August 15,1902, and arrived in Buenos Aires on the 19^th of September of the same year...”  

During those two years there arrived in the Moises Ville colony more than 1200 people (1269), doubling the amount of inhabitations. This fact gave a formidable push and assured its later development.

J.C.A.'s School in Virginia  -1913 Aaron Goldman Museum collection	J.C.A.'s School in Col. Wavelberg - 1912 Aaron Goldman Museum collection

 

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