Osherenko/Oserenko and Koseletz

[Osher80]

Is either surname known of or common in Koseletz? What do they mean? Are they of importance there, etc?

[Hannia]

Osherenko/Oscherenko/Oserenko ???

As per Ellis island the surname is listed as Hebrew.

TODAY Kozeletz (1990 pop. 9,600) is the district/raion center town in Chernihivska region/oblast > Ukraine
(intl abbr UA) - most current zip code 17000-003.

Kozeletz is a historical place, first mentioned in 1098. It was a fortified town in Kyevan Rus. In 1656 it was
granted the rights of Magdeburg law. It was a company town in the Pereiaslav regiment (1648–67) and the
Kyiv regiment (1667–1782), and from 1708 served as the administrative center of the latter. It then was a
county town in Kyiv vice-regency (1782–97), Little Russia gubernia (1797–1802) and Chernigovska
gubernia/region (1802–1917).

It has a flax-processing plant, a food industry, a mixed-feed industry, and a veterinary medical college. Several
of the town's architectural monuments have been preserved: the baroque Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother
of God, designed by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli and built by Andrei Kvasov & Ivan Hryhorovych-Barsky in
1752–63, the Regimental building, today town hall designed and built by A. Kvasov and I. Hryhorovych-Barsky in 1756.
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LDS has filmed Jewish metrikal records from Kozeletz!!!

Title
Метрические книги : Козелец (уезд), 1867-1917

Authors
Еврейские общества. Козелец (уезд) (Main Author)

Notes
Микрофильмированное издание рукописей в Государственном архиве Черниговской области в Чернигове, Украина.
Текст на русском и еврейском.
Registers of Jewish births, marriages, deaths, and divorces for the Kozelet︠s︡ uezd (district), Chernigov, Russia; later
split into Bobrovyt︠s︡i︠a︡, Chernihiv, Ukraine; Kozelet︠s︡′, Chernihiv, Ukraine; Nosivka, Chernihiv, Ukraine; and
Brovary, Kiev, Ukraine. Text in Russian and Hebrew.
Фонд 679, опись 10, дела 3588-3590.

Subjects
Россия, Чернигов, Козелец - Еврейские документы
Russia, Chernigov, Kozelet︠s︡ - Jewish records
Україна, Чернігів, Бобровиця - Єврейські записи
Ukraine, Chernihiv, Bobrovyt︠s︡i︡a︡ - Jewish records
Україна, Чернігів, Козелець - Єврейські записи
Ukraine, Chernihiv, Kozelet︠s︡′ - Jewish records
Україна, Чернігів, Носівка - Єврейські записи
Ukraine, Chernihiv, Nosivka - Jewish records
Україна, Київ, Бровари - Єврейські записи
Ukraine, Kiev, Brovary - Jewish records
Россия, Чернигов, Козелец, Козелец - Еврейские документы
Russia, Chernigov, Kozelet︠s︡, Kozelet︠s︡ - Jewish records
Україна, Чернігів, Козелець, Козелець - Єврейські записи
Ukraine, Chernihiv, Kozelet︠s︡′, Kozelet︠s︡′ - Jewish records

Format
Manuscript (On Film)

Language
Russian
Hebrew

Publication
Солт Лейк Сити [С.Ш.А.] : Микрофильмирован Генеалогическим обществом штата Юта, 2004

Physical
на 2 микрофильмах ; 35 мм

Film Notes
Note - Location [Film]
Ф. 679, о. 10, д. 3588 Рождения 1867 -- Рождения 1871 -- Рождения 1875 --
Рождения 1877-1879 -- Рождения 1882 -- Рождения 1885 -- Рождения 1897 --
Рождения 1913-1914 -- Рождения 1917 - VAULT INTL Film [ 2392159 Item 4 ]
Ф. 679, о. 10, д. 3589 Бракосочетания в 1870-ых гг. -- Бракосочетания 1872 --
Бракосочетания 1884 -- Разводы 1879 - FHL INTL Film [ 2392160 Item 1 ]
Ф. 679, о. 10, д. 3590 Смерти в 1870-ых гг. -- Смерти 1873 -- Смерти 1877 --
Смерти 1879 -- Смерти 1884 - FHL INTL Film [ 2392160 Item 2 ]

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Title
Метрические книги, 1854-1862

Authors
Еврейское общество. Козелец (Козелец) (Main Author)

Notes
Микрофильмированное издание рукописей в Государственном архиве
Черниговской области в Чернигове. Registers of Jewish births, marriages, deaths,
divorces for Kozelet︠s︡, Kozelets, Chernigov, Russia; later Kozelet︠s︡, Kozelets,
Chernihiv, Ukraine. Text in Russian.
Фонд 679, опись 12, дела 572-591

Subjects
Россия, Чернигов, Козелец, Козелец - Еврейские документы
Russia, Chernigov, Kozelet︠s︡, Kozelet︠s︡ - Jewish records
Україна, Чернігів, Козелець, Козелець - Єврейські записи
Ukraine, Chernihiv, Kozelet︠s︡′, Kozelet︠s︡′ - Jewish records

Format
Manuscript (On Film)

Language
Russian

Publication
Солт Лейк Сити [С.Ш.А.] : Микрофильмирован Генеалогическим
обществом штата Юта, 1998

Physical
на 2 микрофильмах ; 35 мм

Film Notes
Note - Location [Film]
Ф. 679, о. 12, д. 572-575 Рождения 1859-1862 -- Ф. 679, о. 12, д. 576-579
Бракосочетания 1855-1857, 1862 -- Ф. 679, о. 12, д. 580 Смерти 1855-1856 -
VAULT INTL Film [ 2125331 Items 13 - 21 ]
Ф. 679, о. 12, д. 581-587 Смерти 1857-1862 -- Ф. 679, о. 12, д. 588-591
Разводы 1854-1862 - VAULT INTL Film [ 2125332 Items 1 - 13 ]

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Civil Registrations

Title
Акты гражданского состояния, 1924-1927

Authors
Козелец (Козелец). Отдел записи актов гражданского состояния (Main Author)

Notes
Микрофильмированное издание рукописей в Государственном архиве
Черниговской области. Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths for Kozelet︠s︡,
Kozelet︠s︡, Chernigov, Russia; later Kozelet︠s︡′, Kozelet︠s︡′, Chernihiv, Ukraine.
Text in Russian and Ukrainian. Фонд Р-8999, опись 1, дела 9, 21, 27, 41, 45, 59, 65, 72, 90, 99.
In some cases, records from other localities may be inter-mixed on the same item with records
from this locality.

Subjects
Россия, Чернигов, Козелец, Козелец - Акты гражданского состояния
Russia, Chernigov, Kozelet︠s︡, Kozelet︠s︡ - Civil registration
Україна, Чернігів, Козелець, Козелець - Акти громадянського стану
Ukraine, Chernihiv, Kozelet︠s︡′, Kozelet︠s︡′ - Civil registration

Format
Manuscript (On Film)

Language
Russian
Ukrainian

Publication
Солт Лейк Сити [С.Ш.А.] : Микрофильмирован Генеалогическим обществом
штата Юта, 2005-2006

Physical
на 10 микрофильмах ; 35 мм

Film Notes
Note - Location [Film]
Ф. Р-8999, о. 1, д. 9 Рождения 1924 (стр. 124-190; рождения 1890 на стр. 145;
есть рождения 1902-1919, некоторые года пропущены) - VAULT INTL Film [ 2410210 Item 3 ]
Ф. Р-8999, о. 1, д. 21 Бракосочетания 1924 (стр. 1-69) - VAULT INTL Film [ 2410217 Item 4 ]
Ф. Р-8999, о. 1, д. 27 (продолжение) Рождения 1925 (стр. 46-59) - VAULT INTL Film [ 2410219 Item 1 ]
Ф. Р-8999, о. 1, д. 41 Смерти 1925 (стр. 1-46) - VAULT INTL Film [ 2410223 Item 2 ]
Ф. Р-8999, о. 1, д. 45 Бракосочетания 1925 (стр. 130-179) - VAULT INTL Film [ 2410224 Item 3 ]
Ф. Р-8999, о. 1, д. 59 (продолжение) Смерти 1926 (стр. 93-169) - VAULT INTL Film [ 2410381 Item 1 ]
Ф. Р-8999, о. 1, д. 65 Бракосочетания 1926 (стр. 1-40) - VAULT INTL Film [ 2410382 Item 4 ]
Ф. Р-8999, о. 1, д. 72 Рождения 1927 (стр. 26-116; включает 1902-1924, некоторые года пропущены) -
VAULT INTL Film [ 2410384 Item 3 ]
Ф. Р-8999, о. 1, д. 90 Смерти 1927 (стр. 1-186) - VAULT INTL Film [ 2410410 Item 2 ]
Ф. Р-8999, о. 1, д. 99 Бракосочетания 1927 (стр. 65-110) - VAULT INTL Film [ 2413744 Item 4 ]

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[Hannia]

Anna Proshina, president of the local Jewish community and a retired math and science teacher. Mrs. Proshina
cultivates a large vineyard on her property, producing various wines that are bottled in colorful old vodka bottles.
She also appears to be a local historian, responding in some detail to questions from the writer and Rabbi Saiger
about the history and ongoing renovation of a large and grand 18th–century Orthodox cathedral that appears to
overwhelm the rural character of its surroundings.

Also greeting the Hillel students was Iosif Schuster, regional director of the hesed in Chernihiv. Mr. Schuster said
that the total population of the city of Chernihiv is about 300,000 and the total population of Chernihiv oblast is
about 1.2 million. The Jewish population of Chernihiv city, he said, is about 3,000; another 2,000 Jews live elsewhere
in the oblast, in such towns as Kozelets, Schors, Horodnya, Nezhin, and Priluky. About 150 Jews leave the oblast for
Israel annually, said Mr. Schuster, including many adolescents who enter the Na’aleh high school in Israel program
upon completion of tenth grade. The average salary in the oblast, continued Mr. Schuster, is about $20 monthly,
and the average pension is about $12 monthly. Pensions are usually five to six months late; people are now
(in April 2000) receiving their pensions for November 1999. Medicines, he said, are very expensive, usually beyond
the means of pensioners. He expressed thanks for the medicines (multivitamins and acetaminophen) brought by
Hillel students. The Jews in Chernihiv oblast live relatively well because of the generosity of Jews in the United States,
he added. Mr. Schuster had brought food parcels to be distributed to Jewish elderly in Kozelets; the parcels,
which were temporarily stored in Mrs. Proshina’s sun porch, included various food staples, a carton of fruit juice,
and a copy of the Chernihiv regional Jewish newspaper.

Mrs. Proshina stated that the Jewish community of Kozelets consisted of 16 individuals, 13 women and three men.
Six of the 16 are non-Jews, all married to or widows of Jews. Almost all in the community are pensioners and receive
food parcels. No Jewish young people remain in the town, she said; all leave, most of them going to Israel.

Ten elderly Jews attended the seder. All were seated at a long table, stretching diagonally from one corner of
Mrs. Proshina’s living room/dining room to the other. The Hillel students were at one end of the table and led the
seder, the chief role assigned to a bilingual (Russian-English) International Solomon University graduate now
em-ployed by Hillel. Mrs. Pro-shina and a team of women colleagues had prepared an ample and tasty seder meal.

Betsy Gidwitz Reports

[Osher80]

Unfortunately, I can only read English, but the information I can read is very informative.