The Generations of Moises Ville

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HISTORY

Origin and Destiny

1889 - Podoliers' Adventure

Old Monigotes

Several Groups

1894 - Grodno Group

1900-1902 The colony grows up

Medanos

Kherson Group

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Genealogy

Names

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AGJA- Jewish Genealogical Society of Argentina

Moises Ville's Historical Museum

Jewishgen

Baron Hirsch

Moises Ville in Jewish Encyclopedia

Pictures

Four synagogues

Casa Argentina en Jerusalem

THE GROUP of KHERSON

The spelling changes according to the source and language: Gerson, Cherson, also Jerson. In the Russian language it is spelled Kherson. It was the capital of a great gubernia (province) of the Russian Empire that embraced the current Ukrainian oblast (counties) of Kirovograd, Mykolayiv (Nicolaev) and Kherson. The city of Kirovograd, capital of the first one of those counties, was called formerly Elizabethgrad.

The former Kherson Gubernia, and the area where my grandfather came from. 

From the area of Kherson several groups left for the Jewish colonies in Argentina, to populate the colonies of Clara and Lucienville in Entre Rios. The Novibug group arrived with the JCA's support in 1894 was originated from that area.

In 1905, after several years during which the JCA had interrupted the formation of new groups, and after a continuous wave of pogroms (254 pogroms between 1903 and 1906) and persecutions in Russia, it renewed its call for applicants for colonists. Of among almost 600 applicants they 86 were left after a rigorous selection which included a drawing of lots. We don’t know the complete list. Below is shown an incomplete list belonging of that group that colonized Monigotes, 40 km north of Moises Ville. Other colonists of the same group settled in Colony Santa Isabel (Pedernal, Entre Rios), some of them also included in the list. The group of settlers included people from various agricultural villages and the town of Krivoy Rog.

The location of the origin places in the partial map of Ukraine

Copyright © 2008 Mario N. Jeifetz.