Degania Alef
Born in Coșnița, a village in Kherson Governorate in the Russian Empire (today in the Dubăsari District of Moldova), Baratz was educated at a Heder and joined the Young Zion movement in Chișinău. He immigrated to Ottoman-controlled Palestine in 1906, and worked in agriculture in Petah Tikva and Rehovot, and as a stone cutter in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Atlit and Zikhron Ya'akov. In 1920, Baratz was also amongst the early members of Degania Alef, the first kibbutz.