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From the Old World to the New
Life in Koshovato Zeide Shlomo and the Goat The Boys of Koshovato Sonya Goes to School The Picture Bride No Gambling Here Choosing a Rabbi Welcome to America The Business Trip The Reluctant Soldiers The Rabbi is Not In Pogroms An Engagement Agreement Zionism The Border Crossings Sonya Travels to America A Meeting in Pittsburgh My Hands Are Cold The Passover Dishes Coming to America Rose Moves to New York and Meets her Beshert The Visit I Want Turkey Abi Gezunt (As Long As You Are Healthy) Aunt Lybba Comes to Visit Visits to Stroudsburg Passover Memories Appendix A little History ... A little Geography
Created 02 Dec 2018
A little History ... A little GeographyThe Pale of Settlement was the area (now the Ukraine) which Russian Jews were confined from 1794-1917. The town of Koshovato (Koschewatoje) was about 120 kilometers south west of Kiev. There were between 6,000 and 7,000 people in town. This included 250 Jewish families. Koshovato was south east of Tarashta (Taraschischa) and south west of Boguslav. In Koshovato there were three synagogues, The shul was the largest. Everyone was welcome to attend services there. The second synagogue was the Bas Hamidrash. It was a smaller synagogue where people with better Jewish education worshiped. (The Gubenkos prayed here). The more worldly people, the people with the best secular education, prayed in the Clois. All three synagogues were Orthodox. In the spring and summer of 1919 there were pogroms in the Ukraine. The leader of the pogroms was S.V. Petlura. |