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title: "Felix was a butcher"
url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/facts/felix-carnicero/
lang: en
work: "The Smud Family: A Jewish Family History from Ludza, Latvia to Entre Ríos, Argentina"
author: "Mateo Smud"
licence: CC0-1.0
summary: "A butcher in Berdyansk according to Freedman, and in Buenos Aires according to Rubén. It was also the Zhmood family's trade."
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# Felix was a butcher

**Evidence status: documented.** A butcher in Berdyansk according to Freedman, and in Buenos Aires according to Rubén. It was also the Zhmood family's trade.

The sources reach the same point by different routes. Freedman learned it from the history of the colony families; Rubén, from what Alejandro and Aida told in Argentina. Rubén did not know Freedman's work, and Freedman did not know that this branch had reached Argentina.

## What each source says

- **Chaim Freedman's work** (documented): Koppel had a son named Yerakhmiel Falik: from Berdyansk, a soldier and a butcher.
- **The Komisaruk family, according to Freedman (February 2020)** (documented): Yerakhmiel Falik Zmood was a butcher and lived in Berdyansk and Mariupol. It also gives David, Koppel and Moshe as butchers, and says that the husband of Tybel, Felix's sister, made his living as a butcher together with the Zhmood brothers.
- **Rubén's document, October 1996** (family memory): In Buenos Aires Felix worked “as a butcher or slaughterer” with the help of some fellow countrymen of the same origin and in the same trade.

## Who it names

- Felix Smud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/felix-smud/
- Koppel Zhmood — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/koppel-zhmood/
- David Zmud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/david-zhmuydya/

## Places

- Berdyansk — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/berdyansk/
- Buenos Aires — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/buenos-aires/

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The Smud Family · genealogical research by Mateo Smud, published under CC0 1.0. Machine index: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/llms.txt