E-Grupos

In the years 1888 and 1889 there arrived in Argentina, in addition to the passengers of the S.S. Weser, several groups of Jews escaping from Russia, more or less indepently, without a preset destination and without an establishment or colonization plan, although with intention of being devoted to the agriculture. Several members of those groups were colonized in Moises Ville's area.

Arrival of Jewish immigrants to Buenos Aires - Engraving of 1893

The first ones that arrived in Argentina, of those that later on would be inhabitants and colonists in Moises Ville were Abraham Gutman (his family last name was Glükman) and David Horovitz. They were natives of Minsk and arrived with their families in Buenos Aires on July 12 1888, coming from Egypt. Both of them settled in Buenos Aires. Gutman had a passementerie shop, which was his occupation.

Their knowledge and ability in the use of the Spanish language allowed them to achieve important positions very quickly. Horovitz was the administrator of Palacios in the recently founded Moises Ville, and later on an employee of the Jewish Colonization Association. Abraham Gutman was also employee of the JCA and later on Moises Ville's first mayor. He continued in the post for many years, also occupied positions of relevance in the colony.

Horovitz was murdered by a gaucho in 1892. He was survived by a brother in the colony named Abraham Itzhak Horovitz, great defender of the colonization in articles that he sent to the newspaper Hatzefira of Warsaw.

The arrival of both families is registered in the immigration files with incomplete data: the name of the ship nor port of departure is not recorded, and the names of heads of both households are not listed as such, although there are two people with ages that correspond perfectly to the age that Gutman and Horovitz were at the date of arrival. Those that arrived in Buenos Aires on that date are shown in the following list:

Surname

  Name

  Age

  G

  Occupation

  CLASS

GUTMANN

  DAVID

   25

  M

  POSAMANTIER

  3

GUTMANN

  ESTHER

   30

  F

  SIN PROFESION

  3

GUTMANN

  HASFE

    4

  F



  3

GUTMANN

  NIVEL

    9

  F



  3

GUTMANN

  SALOMON

    7

  M



  3

GUTMANN

  SELIE

   12

  M

  SIN PROFESION

  3

GUTMANN

  TILKA

    5

  F



  3

HORWITZ

  ELIAS

    3

  M



  3

HORWITZ

  MASCHE

   24

  F

  H-NDTER

  3

LAPINSKY

  IAN

   30

  M

  ARBEITER

  3

SADOFF

  SALOMON

   26

  M

  STEPPER

  3

Later on, in 1904, a son of Abraham Gutman married to a Horovitz girl:

Zelig Gutman-Elisa Horovitz-Ines

Set 20 1907

Aaron Goldman Museum collection

ALLIANCE GROUP

This group of refugees arrived to the Argentina in 1888. It is referrred to as the Alliance group because it was organizatied with the help of the headquarters in Paris, the Alliance Israelite Universelle, who helped them to complete the trip. It is said that several of them settled down in the area of Santa Fe city and others in Esperanza, a Swiss agricultural colony near Santa Fe, where they worked growing crops. After a time, some of them settled as colonists in Monigotes la Vieja, starting from 1890. A list of the members of that group, 8 families, was published in the book of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Jewish Colonization in Argentina, 1939 and they are the following ones, with their original spelling:

NAME DATA

Lazarus

Idel Vaisman

Simon Glukman

Simon Feldman

Simon Vofsi Monigotes la Vieja

Schwartz

Opino

Kusiel Mosden

We have found some of them with their arrival registered in Buenos Aires on board S.S. Rio Negro on November 3 1888 coming from Havre.

Last Name

Name

Age

FELDMANN

SIMON

  26

FELDMANN

ANNETTE

  23

FELDMANN

SAMUEL

  25

FELDMANN

RACHEL

  19

GLIKMANN

SIMON

  28

GLIKMANN

ELISA

  23

GLIKMANN

WOLF

  21

WEISSMANN

ADOLPH

  35

WEISSMANN

EVA

  29

WEISSMANN

CECILE

  10

WEISSMANN

REBECCA



Thanks to researcher Monica Muñoz we can add other names to this list.

Apellido

Nombre
Edad Apellido Nombre
Edad

GODIN

D
25 MOTOULESKY ISRAUL
37

GODIN

SARAH
25 MOTOULESKY ERNESTINA
35

GODIN

NADINE
6 mes MOTOULESKY ROSE
10

KURHAM

LEOPOLD
39 MOTOULESKY FERNANDA
7

KURHAM

HENRIETTE
36 ROSEMBEAU ABRAHAN
32

KURHAM

FERNAND
16 ROSEMBEAU ERNESTINE
25

KURHAM

MOISES
13 ROSEMBEAU HENRIETTE
3 mes

KURHAM

FANNY
10 AROUCHTAMM ISAAC
37

KURHAM

MATILDE
8 AROUCHTAMM ESTER
40

KURHAM

SARAH
6 AROUCHTAMM REBECCA
11

KURHAM ISAAC 3 AROUCHTAMM JEANNE 7

KURHAM GRUNELI 2 AROUCHTAMM HELENE 4

Professor Haim Avni mentions in his book “History of the Jewish Immigration to the Argentina” a group of Lithuanian natives of the city of Brisk, Lithuania that tried to travel to Argentina in 1888. And he suspects that the members of the group Alliance could be the same ones. Also Adolfo Leibovich in his Intimate Notes affirms that his father extended an invitation to populate Monigotes la Vieja to several of those of the group of the "litvikes" that had arrived in in 1888 and inhabited in Santa Fe. They are.

BESSARABIAN GROUP

A group of Jews from Bessarabia (today Moldava) arrived soon after the group from the S.S. Weser. In fact, representatives of both groups took part in the meetings to set up the travel arrangements and settlement, but later they decided to take the trip by themselves.

According to historian Haim Avni, the Bessarabia group was divided in turn into two due to organizational questions - some of them got tickets on credit from the Argentinean consulate in Berlin and others didn't, later they received help from the Jewish community of that city. We have data of one of the groups that went boarded the SS Karlsruhe in Bremen and arrived in Buenos Aires December 12 1989. According to Adolfo Leibovich's story, two of the families of this group, Guibert and Leibovich, had associated with a Swiss merchant whose last name was Gaffner, to buy through the Banco Colonizador (Settler Bank) a recently liberated field from the Indians, a lonely wilderness covered with scrub called Monigotes la Vieja. Later on they were joined by the Chach (Chajck, Jach) family.

NAME FAMILY GROUP DATA

Leiber Lubel 3

Josef Avanowicz 9

Najman Ravanowicz 7

Moises Chajck 6 Monigotes la Vieja

Mendel Edelstein 3

Jacob Jakelewicz 10

Lauder Mendelsohn 2

Isaac Smigelsky 5

Hirsch Giber 6 Monigotes la Vieja

Rapel Abramowicz 8

Wolf Weissman 5

Schaye Goldmann 1

Jankel Leibowicz 10 Monigotes la Vieja

During 1889 and 1890 other several small groups of Jewish immigrant arrived on different ships, but I have not been able to clarift if they belonged to the second group of Bessarabia for lack of data. Some of the members of those seemingly isolated groups settled down in Moises Ville and they are buried there.

THE SS PAMPA

The S.S. Pampa is a mythical vessel for many descendants of colonists, due to the previous history of the group that she brought, to their later odyssey until settling down, and to the paper that they played in the Jewish Colonization in Argentina. Many descendants of colonists affirm that their ancestors arrived in the S.S. Pampa even when it is documented that they arrived on other boats and on other dates.

In 1891, the recently founded Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) of the Baron de Hirsch came to know about a group of refugees retained in Istanbul. They were in route to Palestine, and the Turkish government wouldn't allow them to continue and they could not return. Some of them were imprisoned, and other wandered on the streets begging charity. Taking advantage of their knowledge of the local government since he was contractor of the railroad the Orient Express (Vienna-Istanbul), the Baron was able to attain the liberation of the detainees and embarked them on a boat going to Argentina. It was a difficult trip, due to the circumstances. The JCA didn't have places in Argentina ready for colonization and the members were not appropriately selected for their ability for that activity. One hundred and forty families and sixty single persons embarked in the S.S. Galatz (merchandises transport) at Istanbul, on November 4 1891. From Marseilles they traveled by train to Bordeaux and there they embarked the S.S. Pampa, arriving on December 16 1891 at Buenos Aires.

"Already in Argentinean port this contingent was housed in the Hotel of Immigrants where they remained some three weeks; but the JCA had not yet completed its colonization plans and the immigrants were transported to the Atlantic Ocean beach, to the south of Miramar, where they remained until the end of March 1892, the date they were transferred to Entre Rios to be settled at Colonia Clara. (Notice summarized from the book “Fondo Comunal, 50 years of life", mention of Dr. Enrique Dickman, one of the S.S. Pampa passengers.)

How did they get to be lodged in the “Boulevard Atlántico", a luxurious hotel of French style in Mar del Sur, an isolated place on the coast? They could not have been unaware to Baron Hirsch's multiple relationships as rail businessman, since that hotel was used and possibly owned by the English managers of railroads in Argentina.

From Mar del Sur the travelers were transported in groups, two groups by cart until Mar del Plata, and then by train to Buenos Aires and by fluvial ship to Concepción del Uruguay. From there they were moved to their new farms in Colonia Clara, Entre Rios province. The third group was transferred to Moises Ville, where they were housed in tents and later on transferred to Entre Rios accompanied by our already well-known Adolfo Leibovich that was at that time employee of the JCA.

Leibovich in addition to the historians of the cooperative Fondo Comunal of Dominguez confirm that the "pampistas" were the first colonists of the colonies of the JCA in Entre Rios. It is said that several of them settled down in Moises Ville, up until now I have not been able to identify any.

In Toldot 8 the whole history of this group has been published by Paul Armony, and the memoirs of one of the immigrants, Mr Mauricio Chajchir (Tischaschir in the list).

Jewish Passengers in the SS PAMPA - Surnames

LAST NAME QUANT. LAST NAME QUANT. LAST NAME QUANT. LAST NAME QUANT.

?

6

FRIEDMANN

1

KUJUCHNER

1

RUDAIEFF

1

ABDECHMAN

1

FROMOWITZ

1

KUKUGEW

1

SACHALINSKY

2

ABRAHAM

1

GALKIN

3

LABSOFSKY

1

SACHOWITZ

6

ABRAHAMSON

1

GEBURKMAN

1

LAHRMAN

5

SAKOL

3

ABRAMOW

5

GELBGIS

6

LAUFER

1

SALOMON

6

ABRAMOWITZ

8

GERSCHIN

4

LAVERNE

2

SCHABOLSKY

8

ABRANOFF

3

GERSON

8

LEHRMAN

4

SCHAFKLIN

5

AGINOSKY

3

GEWNIN

1

LEIDERER

1

SCHAMSCHON

3

AISENBERG

2

GLANZ

4

LERPER

1

SCHAPIRO

6

ARON

2

GLUCKMAN

3

LEWIT

1

SCHAPLIGIN

5

BACKERMAN

1

GOLDENBERG

12

LIEBERMAN

1

SCHEININ

5

BADCHEN

5

GOLDENFLEITER

1

LIPKOWITZ

2

SCHIMAKOFSKY

2

BARST

6

GOLDENVEISER

7

LOEW

4

SCHLOIMOWITZ

5

BASS

3

GOLDIN

5

MAISEL

2

SCHOCKLANDER

1

BEHRMAN

2

GOLDSTEIN

23

MALNIVIG

1

SCHUEHMACHER

9

BELINKY

8

GREITER

7

MARKO

9

SCHUKIN

5

BELSOHN

6

GRITCHINER

1

MEERBAUM

2

SCHUSTER

8

BENGMAN

3

GRODNISTANSKY

2

MELAMEDOFF

3

SCHWARZ

5

BENZMANN

1

GRUMSTEIN

4

MENACHELN

6

SCHWARZMAN

6

BERCOWITZ

2

GRUNBERG

7

MENTZNISKOW

4

SCHWEIZER

1

BERFELD

5

GRUNFELD

15

MEUROW

7

SILBERMAN

11

BERKOWITZ

8

GUITELMAN

4

MICHAILOWITZ

1

SKOPF

5

BERSCHANITZ

1

GULLIN

11

MITZKOWITZ

2

SMIRIN

7

BESNOSSOF

1

GURSCHKOWITZ

2

MOISEI

7

SOBILIENSKY

1

BLANK

4

HALPERN

5

MOLDAWSKY

2

SPAISKY

3

BLAUSEIN

1

HANZESKY

1

NASKOFF

1

SPARKEL

1

BOCKSTEIN

1

HEBERNITZ

6

NISSEN

7

STAATMAN

4

BRAUN

5

HELMAN

1

OFFENGERDER

6

STCSKLOMITZ

3

BRAUNSTEIN

14

HERSCHKOWITZ

1

OSWILOFF

1

STEINBERG

9

BRISLER

7

HIRSCH

1

PAGREBINSKY

3

STEINGARD

7

BRONSTEIN

12

HUN

9

PALKINHOFF

2

STEMBERG

1

BRUCK

1

IAKELENWITZ

7

PIMSTEIN

1

TIRANOFSKY

7

BRUDER

1

IAKOLEWITZ

2

PINSKRER

1

TISCHASCHIR

5

BUCHALEZ

3

ITCHILOFF

10

PRAGERMAN

2

TOPPELBERG

7

COHAN

3

ITZKOWITZ

1

RABINOWITZ

4

TRAB

7

COHEN

3

JUSIK

1

RACHLIN

6

TRAIRN

4

DANSTOFF

4

KALISCH

3

RANSOVER

6

VENGEROFF

3

DAVIDOWITZ

1

KAPLAN

25

REMEROFF

5

WAPNIASKY

1

DICKMAN

1

KATZ

3

RICHLIN

3

WEINBERG

1

EDELMAN

1

KERMACH

2

RIELES

6

WEINSTEIN

5

EPSTEIN

3

KLETZKIN

1

ROBERT

1

WEINTRAUB

1

ETKIN

1

KLIMAN

7

ROISMAN

3

WEINZWEIG

1

FEIERSTEIN

2

KLIMANS

5

ROMER

6

WEISS

9

FEIGEN

9

KOHN

1

ROSENBLUM

7

WEXLER

7

FINGERMANN

7

KONIG

5

ROSENTHAL

3

WIGLER

1

FINKELSTEIN

10

KOPLOW

2

ROSSEN

1

WILFOWITZ

1

FRACHTMAN

4

KORMAN

1

ROTLESTEIN

2

WOLF

7

FRANKEL

1

KORNBLUT

8

ROUVINSKY

4

WOLFSOHN

1

FRIEDBERG

3

KORTRAWSKY

4

RUBIN

2

YAKOB

1

KRINOWITZ

7

RUBINSTEIN

12

YENKOLEWITZ

2

It is known that the later author Alberto Gerschunoff (1883-1950) was in his childhood in Moises Ville, camped with his family in 1891 (he was 8 years old at this time), his father was killed there and is buried in Moises Ville cemetery. They were part of the group of S.S.Pampa. No surname Gerschunoff appears on the list, but Gerschin is the most resemble, though may be anyone.

Alberto Gerschunoff
(1883 Proskurov- Khmel'nyts'kyy, Ucrania-1950 Buenos Aires)

Other Group

On November 1893 there arrived in Buenos Aires on board the steamship Rio Negro two families coming from Bessarabia, headed by Haim Reitich and Osias Chamudes. Both settled in Moises Ville.

Copyright © 2008 Mario N. Jeifetz.