As many of different other Jewish settlements (“mistechko”) at the Russian Empire, Stepantsy became a Jewish colony by some sort of machination. As we know, it was totally forbidden to the Jewish people to live at the villages and mix between the peasants. At the middle of the 18th century, they could live only at the agricultural colonies or at…
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Jewish family names that you can find at 1897 Russian Empire (Ukraine, Belarussia, Russia) census at Pokatilov village, Ukraine: Funt Boruch Simha, Ozeransky Chaim Nachman Boruch, Nezdatny Shai Itskov, Vorona Moshko, Goldbarg Peisah Refulev, Abramsky Leia, Kaner Skharya Avrum-Gershom, Royzenfeld Shai Volkov, Kantorovich Yos Yudkov, Kamen Berko Shieshov (Shneshov? Shaishov?), Rabinovich Shmarev Falicov (?), Braslavsky Yankel (Schlick?), Rabinovich Pinchas Shaimov, Litvak Zeilik…
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