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World Jewish News
Simferopol Book on Jewish Collective Farmers
25.05.2009
The new book "The Jewish collective farmers" was published in Simferopol with the financial support of the National Committee of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on interethnic relations and deported citizens.
The authors of the documentary compendium are the historian and journalist Nicholay Gotovchikov and the President of the Association of Jewish Communities and Organizations of Crimea, representative of the Jewish Fund of Ukraine in the Crimea Anatoly Gendin.
The book compiles unique documents and photographs on the history of the Jewish collective and the Jewish villages of Roytendorf, Nayleben, Nayshprotsung in the 1930s-1940s.
Collective farms, bringing together former artisans and craftsmen, who were at the time the best agricultural enterprises in the Crimea and the Soviet Union, winners of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow and All-Union agricultural competitions.
Here, in the collective farm named after Sverdlov, the career of twice Hero of Socialist Labor, the future chairman of the collective farm "Russia" Ilya Egudin began.
Back in the pre-war years, the Jewish collective farmers transformed the steppe Crimea into blooming gardens and vineyards.
In each village, palaces of culture were built, as well as schools where children were taught in Yiddish.
During the Second World War the majority of Jewish villages residents were killed by the Nazis.
Now, on the sites of Jewish collective farms and villages there are monuments to the murdered, rural museums, and Jewish cemeteries.
The book by N. Gotovchikov and A. Gendin is also a kind of monument to the history and culture of Jewish heroism in the Crimea.
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