“A Unique Document about the Life of Yuzovka Jews”: the article is based on the
document, “Report on the Activities of the Management Board: Benefit Society for
the Poor Jews of Yuzovka” (1907), which documents donations, receipts, and
expenditures; listing Jewish donors’ names. The alphabetical list of 246 donors
from the village of Yuzovka was compiled in January, 1907. Donations ranged
from 20 cents to 24 rubles.
As
a frame of reference, in 1907, according to the article, the costs for common
purchases were:
Coat—60
rubles
Shoes—6.4
rubles
Man’s
shirt—5 rubles
5
meters of calico—1 ruble
3
lb. meat, 20 lb. white bread, or 1.5 lb. butter—1 ruble
A
few donor names include:
D.
Abramov
Ya
Yantovsky
I.I.
Tudorovski—9 rubles, 50 kopecks
A.Z
.Freyliher—6 rubles, 50 kopecks
Nusinkes—1
ruble
Two
sample pages of the document appear in the article.
(the
article was posted by Alexei Fedko, May 19, 2010)
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