Zgurița
Zgurița | |
|---|---|
Village | |
UTC+3 (EEST) |
Zgurița is a village in
History
The village was founded by merging three localities: Zgura in the North,
In 1878, the new Jewish owner canceled the lease of the estate, and Zgurița lost its status as a Jewish agricultural colony. From 1890 to 1903 further Jewish settlement in Zgurița was prohibited by virtue of the May Laws issued by the Russian Tsarist authorities on May 3, 1882.
In 1897, Zgurița's Jewish population was 1,802, comprising 85% of the total population of the village. In 1918, Bessarabia
At the 1930 census, Zgurița had a population of 3,028. It was part of
In 1940, the Soviet Union with the consent of
In 1944, Soviets recovered Bessarabia, and re-established Moldavian SSR. The village's last Jewish resident, mill owner Motl Weinberg, left in 2001.
The Jewish cemetery, which had been neglected for some years, was fenced in 2020 by the
Demographics
| Ethnic composition | |||
| Ethnic group | 1930 census | 2004 census | |
Jews |
2,541 | – | |
| Moldovans | N/A | 1,912 | |
| Romanians | 212 | 16 | |
| Ruthenians and Ukrainians | 13 | 774 | |
| Russians | 258 | 118 | |
| Bulgarians | – | 5 | |
| Gypsies | – | 3 | |
| Poles | 2 | 1 | |
Gagauzians |
– | 1 | |
| others | 2 | 10 | |
| Total | 3,028 | 2,840 | |
| Native language | ||
| Language | 1930 census | 2004 census |
| Yiddish | 2,535 | N/A |
| Romanian | 192 | N/A |
| Russian | 290 | N/A |
| Ukrainian | 8 | N/A |
| Polish | 3 | N/A |
| other | – | N/A |
| Total | 3,028 | 2,840 |
Famous residents
- Svetlana Yakir, Russian writer
- Elazar Kochva, Israeli herpetologist
- Mordechai Goldenberg, Hebrew writer and Yiddish poet
- Yenta Mash, Yiddish writer
- Pedro and Mauricio Sprinberg, Yiddish journalists
References
- Central Election Commission of Moldova. 2015. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
- ^ Results of Population and Housing Census in the Republic of Moldova in 2014: "Characteristics - Population (population by communes, religion, citizenship)" (XLS). National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova. 2017. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
- ^ Clasificatorul unităților administrativ-teritoriale al Republicii Moldova (CUATM) (in Romanian)
- ^ "Краткая История села "Згурица"". OLDSTORY.INFO. March 13, 2012. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
"Encyclopaedia Judaica" Keter Publishing House Jerusalem Ltd. 1972
External links
48°07′N 28°01′E / 48.117°N 28.017°E
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
