The Jewish agricultural colony
Novy Zlatopol
A Jewish agricultural colony in Ekaterinoslav province where the family settled around 1850. It is the source of the oldest document we have: the 1858 census.
The Russian state offered land to Jewish families willing to take up farming, and many accepted: it was one of the few ways out of the restrictions that weighed on them.
By about 1850 the family was settled in Novy Zlatopol, one of those agricultural colonies, in Ekaterinoslav province. That is where the oldest document we have appears: an 1858 census that records the whole family under one roof, with names and ages.
The census was taken on 26 May 1858, in Aleksandrovsk district. The family is listed as household 47/92, headed by David Falikov Zmud.
What happened here
- c. 1850
The family settles in the colony
The family is now settled in Novy Zlatopol, a Jewish agricultural colony in Ekaterinoslav province.
- 1858
The colony census
On 26 May the colony census is taken. It records David, aged 40, and his whole household: his sons —among them Koppel, aged 20— and Koppel's wife, Dvorka. It is the oldest document we have.