The Jewish settlement of Moisés Ville is…
October 1889 CE
The original name intended for the town was Kiryat Moshe ("Town of Moses" in Hebrew) honoring Baron Maurice Moshe Hirsch, but the land agent who registered the settlement translated it to the French-like Moïsesville which was later hispanized to the current Moisés Ville.
Moises Ville is regarded as the first agricultural Jewish colony in South America, beating by some months a smaller group coming from Bessarabia who will establishe a neighboring settlement called Monigotes.
These one hundred and thirty families (eight hundred and fifteen persons) of "Colonos" are the Argentine Jewry equivalent to the Mayflower passengers, and whoever can prove his descent from them can claim to be part of the Agricultural Pioneer Aristocracy.
Moisés Ville, together with its sister colonies of Mauricio and Clara, are the main examples of the work of Baron Maurice de Hirsch's Jewish Colonization Association.
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