To understand the Jewish life in the Russian Empire, we should go back a couple hundred years. The partitions of Poland, which took place at the end of the 18th century, led to the fact that almost a million mostly poor Jewish residents of Belarus, Lithuania, Podolia, Volhynia and most of central Poland turned out to be in the territory of Russia.
Jews were forced to leave their homes and move to Kherson, Yekaterinoslav and Tavria gubernias. The difficulties of this artificial resettlement of Jews from their usual occupations and trades and making them to do what they couldn’t do were obvious, but it did not stop the government. The desire of the authorities to solve three problems at the same time was paramount: To evict the Jews from the villages and thus reduce the Jewish population in the western provinces; To populate the desert lands of Novorossiya; And "correct the harmful Jews" by accustoming them to agriculture. In this way colonies were established.
Anna also spoke about the life of Jews in shtetlah later in the XX century. She showed Jewish houses, Jewish rooms, and talked about memories from her own childhood.
Anna Royzner is Ukrainian Jewish. In 1995, she started her work as a guide/interpreter and a researcher in Ukraine and Moldova. She conducts guided tours, helps clients find records in the Kishinev and Ukraine archives, and does cemetery projects. Anna has worked with the TV show 'Who do You Think You Are?' as a researcher and liaison with ancestral places.
Anna was a speaker at the IAJGS Conferences in Washington, Boston, Seattle, Orlando, and Warsaw, and online conferences in the Ukrainian and Bessarabian groups.
Jews were forced to leave their homes and move to Kherson, Yekaterinoslav and Tavria gubernias. The difficulties of this artificial resettlement of Jews from their usual occupations and trades and making them to do what they couldn’t do were obvious, but it did not stop the government. The desire of the authorities to solve three problems at the same time was paramount: To evict the Jews from the villages and thus reduce the Jewish population in the western provinces; To populate the desert lands of Novorossiya; And "correct the harmful Jews" by accustoming them to agriculture. In this way colonies were established.
Anna also spoke about the life of Jews in shtetlah later in the XX century. She showed Jewish houses, Jewish rooms, and talked about memories from her own childhood.
Anna Royzner is Ukrainian Jewish. In 1995, she started her work as a guide/interpreter and a researcher in Ukraine and Moldova. She conducts guided tours, helps clients find records in the Kishinev and Ukraine archives, and does cemetery projects. Anna has worked with the TV show 'Who do You Think You Are?' as a researcher and liaison with ancestral places.
Anna was a speaker at the IAJGS Conferences in Washington, Boston, Seattle, Orlando, and Warsaw, and online conferences in the Ukrainian and Bessarabian groups.
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