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The chapter: Toldot – Historical Review – authored and edited by Tzvi Livneh-Lieberman The memory chapters –collected and edited by the initiating committee with the involvement of Tzvi Livneh-Lieberman The Story “Ba'aravah” [“On the Prairie”] by D. Tverdovsky as well as the article about “A Jewish Colony in the Year 1823” were translated [to Hebrew] by Shimshon Meltzer The memory poems by Mordekhai Pitkin, were translated [to Hebrew] by Immanuel Ha'Rusi Helping with the reading and editing of various chapter were: Diklah Golomb, Yehuda Slutzki and Khayim Halperin   The maps of the region on pages 423–428, were established by Yosi Mestchekin. The editor: Yosef Wilfned Graphical editing: Tzvi Zohar   © All rights reserved to Sifriat Ha'Poalim Ltd. Published in Israel, 1965, 5725

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Title	Author	Page	Original Hebrew
With the Book	Israel Ben Eliyahu, Mordekhai Khalili and Mordekhai Simkhoni	7
Introduction	Khaim Halperin	9
Toldot – An Historical Review	Tzvi Livneh-Lieberman	13
A. An Historical Background
The Jews during the Partitions of Poland		15
From the Bad to Worse		19
The Mission of the Senator Dyezhavin		21
The Committee for Remedying the State of the Jews and 1804 Regulations		23
The Atmosphere and Notables		25
B. The Settlement in Its Beginning
First Attempts		31
The First Colonies		33
The Decline of the First Wave		35
The Abolition of the Expulsion Decrees from the Villages		39
The Troubles of the Settlers during the Second Decade		41
A New Awakening and its Decline		44
The Second Wave of Settlers		47
Once Again—a Drought and its Consequences		49
The Accusation		50
C. The Period of Nikolai the First
New Proposals		55
Nikolai's Army Recruitment Decrees		56
Regulations for the Encouragement of Jewish Settlement		61
The “Siberian Plan”		64
The “Retraction” from the Siberian Plan		67
The Return to the Settlement in Kherson		69
Under the Mercies of Officials and Patrons		71
Torturous Journeys		73
Criticism and the Review of the Complaints		75
The Continuance of the Settlement		77
The Jewish Public and the Settlement		79
The New “Jewish Affairs Legislation”		82
The settlement in Ekaterinoslav Province		86
Changes in Management – Yet Again		89
D. The Settlement During the Reign of Alexander the Second
Years of Calamities		95
Islavin's Reports		96
The Problem of the Supervision in the Settlement		98
About Rabbis and Melameds		100
Kherson's and Ekaterinoslav Colonies are Center Stage Again		102
Improvement and Stabilization		105
The Situation after the Peasants' Emancipation, during the 1860s		107
Klaus's Report in 1870		111
E. Acclimatization and Struggles
When the Hatred Waves Swell		115
Under the Signs of Awakening and Renewal		116
The Settlement Movement at a Turning Point		119
The Census of 1898–9		122
Estate Owners and Lessees		124
Under Signs of Wealth and Progress		126
In the Days of the World War and Russian Revolution		128
F. Flourishing Ahead of the Holocaust
The Settlement is Renewed with the Assistance of Jewish Organizations		134
The Settlement Enterprise at its Peak		136
The Decline and its Reasons; the Holocaust		140
Folklore Chapters
Ba'arva (On the Prairie)	David Tverdovsky	145
Poems of Remembrance	Mordekhai Pitkin	177
Memories
Sdeh Menukha Ha'Gdola	Menakhem Ben-Sadeh	185
Sdeh Menukha Ha'Ktana	Tzvi Shadmi, Sara Shadmi, Leibel Kahanov, Yehuda Menukhi, Ben–Tzion Komarov, Shternah Ninberg, Mordekhai Simkhoni, Israel Ben Eliyahu, Mordekhai Khalili, Rakhel Pnini, Azriel Pnini	189
Sehaidak	Khaim Cohen, Tzipora Kaminker, Avraham Toren & Israel Zeltzer	231
Netchayevka	Moshe Avigal (Beigel)	241
Novo-Vitebsk	Rivka Guber	248
Ruzhany	Mordekhai Guber	256
Kil'yanovka	Breina Likhtman	257
Novo–Poltavka	Yehoshua Medem, Rachel Yehudai	260
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
Yefeh–Nahar and Dobroye	Yehoshua Bar–Dromah, Tzipora Bar–Droma–Gallili	341
Pavlova and Konstantinova	Arye Rozhenski	348
Inguletz	Malka A'haroni	350
Memories about the Colonies After the Revolution
The Colonies during the Days of Calamities	Mordekhai Simkhoni (Geva)	354
In the Hakhshara [Pioneer Training] in the Colonies	Zeev Dor Sinai	359
The “Volga Guard” Group	Israel Heller	362
A Stack of Letters from the Colonies	Yehuda Erez	371
The Colonies after the Revolution	David Tribman	376
The Rehabilitation of the Jewish Agricultural Colonies in Southern Ukraine	Agronomist B. Gorshtein	383
From the Literature
A Jewish Colony in Russia in the Year 1823		389
Jews who Work the Land	Yosef Perl	393
The Kingship Gives Land to the Jews	Mendele Mokher Sfarim	397
Jews who Work the Land	Aviezer Mi'Kandiya	401
Appendices		403
Appendix A – Stopping the Settlement in the Western Provinces (In 1859)		405
Appendix B – The Agricultural Settlement throughout Russia in the Year 1856		408
Appendix C – The Settlement in Kherson and Ekaterinoslav at the end of 1885		409
Appendix D – The State of the Jewish Settlement in the Western Provinces at the End of 1880's		411
Appendix E – The Jewish Settlement in Bessarabia		412
Appendix F – A review of the Agriculture in the Jewish Colonies in the Ukraine (Until 1926)		415
Appendix G – Birobidzhan – The autonomous Jewish District		421
Maps		423
Bibliography		429
Dates in the History of the Jewish Agricultural Settlement		430
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