Jewish Agricultural Colonization in Old Russia

Saul Borovoi

1928

Preface

Now, when the attention of broad circles of society has been drawn to issues of the Jewish land system, it is especially tempting to recall the distant past of the first Jewish agricultural settlements in our country. Having arisen more than a hundred years ago on the steppes of Ukraine, they exist to this day. Behind them lies an…

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Creator Bio

Saul Borovoi

1903–1989

Saul Borovoi, from Odessa, defended his dissertation on the history of Ukraine in 1940. Writing in Yiddish and Russian, he also studied and translated Hebrew. Borovoi wrote about Jews in the Khmelnytsky uprising and about the Nazi occupation of Odessa. His memoirs were published posthumously.

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