Stepantsy, Jewish colony at Kanev district, Ukraine.  – www.jewua.info

Stepantsy, Jewish colony at Kanev district, Ukraine

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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