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Moisés Ville (Yiddish: מוזעסוויל ) is a small town (comuna) in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina...

Moisés Ville (Yiddish: מוזעסוויל ) is a small town (comuna) in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina founded in 1889 by Eastern European and Russian Jews escaping pogroms and persecution. 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. The town is located about 177 km (110 mi) from the provincial capital, in the San Cristóbal Department and 616 km (383 mi) from Buenos Aires. It has 2,572 inhabitants as of the 2001 census [INDEC]. Moises Ville is for Argentine Jewry more than an actual settlement, it is a legendary place. It was founded by a group of Russian Jewish colonists arriving in August 1889 aboard the SS Weser from Kamenetz-Podolsk, Ukraine and is regarded as the first agricultural Jewish colony in South America, beating by some months a smaller group coming from Bessarabia who established a neighbouring settlement called Monigotes. These 130 families (815 persons) "Colonos" are the Argentine Jewry equivalent to the Mayflower passengers, and whoever can