I did a deep dive earlier on my great-great grandfather, Moshe Dovid Fine. Since then, I have a new document that backs up some of the stories that my grandmother had told about him and the fact that he had enough land to have a large vegetable garden and fruit trees.
He was a land-owner in Shklyn--enough to pay taxes:
Moszko Fajn owned 800 sazhens of land (equal to about .8999 acres) in Skhlyn. He owed 0.42 zlotys in state tax and 0.25 zlotys in municipal tax yearly.
In a time and place when very few Jews owned land, it's interesting that Moshe Dovid was able to own his own plot. Hopefully I'll eventually dig up the story about how he was permitted to (and able to afford to) acquire it!
He was a land-owner in Shklyn--enough to pay taxes:
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| Tax Record for Charukov Township, Town of Shklyn, 1930s--line 247; Source: State archive of Volyn Oblast. Fond 36, opys 4, file 281, page 114 |
Moszko Fajn owned 800 sazhens of land (equal to about .8999 acres) in Skhlyn. He owed 0.42 zlotys in state tax and 0.25 zlotys in municipal tax yearly.
In a time and place when very few Jews owned land, it's interesting that Moshe Dovid was able to own his own plot. Hopefully I'll eventually dig up the story about how he was permitted to (and able to afford to) acquire it!
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