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title: "Chaim Freedman, October 2020"
url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/freedman-october-2020/
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: "The study Freedman wrote after seeing the full 1858 census. It corrects the two filiations that census contradicts and proposes, as a theory, others that do fit it: Khana daughter of Shlomo-Zalmen Komisaruk, Dvorka daughter of Aba and of a Chana who would be a Yovel, and a Sender as father of Falk and Aba."
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# Chaim Freedman, October 2020

The study Freedman wrote after seeing the full 1858 census. It corrects the two filiations that census contradicts and proposes, as a theory, others that do fit it: Khana daughter of Shlomo-Zalmen Komisaruk, Dvorka daughter of Aba and of a Chana who would be a Yovel, and a Sender as father of Falk and Aba.

It is Freedman's most recent version and the one that fits the documents best. When Michoel Ronn obtained the full 1858 census in 2020, the women's patronymics appeared —the Zaporizhzhia archive had left them out when searching on commission— and two filiations that had been taken for granted stopped fitting.

Freedman says it himself: “New information was discovered in August 2020 which necessitated rethinking the above relationships”. The new filiations he proposes are compatible with the census, but they are theory: Khana's depends on her father Zalka being Rabbi Shlomo-Zalmen, and that of Dvorka's mother on the tradition of kinship with the Yovels running through her.

## Filiation by filiation

- **Khana Reizel** — father: Shlomo-Zalmen Komisaruk — compatible with the documents. Shlomo-Zalmen's daughter, not his sister: the census calls her a daughter of Zalka. It fits, but the patronymic only gives the father's name. (The 1858 census)
- **Chana** — father: Mordechai Yovel — unverified. Freedman's theory: Aba's wife would be a daughter of Marek Yovel and a sister of Tzvi. That makes Dvorka Tzvi's niece, and Moshe Zmood and Rochel Yovel cousins, as Maurice Zmood said. (Relationships among the Komisaruk, Zmood and Yovel families, according to Freedman (2020))
- **Aba Senderov Zmudya** — father: Alexander Zhmuydya — compatible with the documents. “Aba Senderov”: his father was called Sender. That this Sender is the Alexander of the trees, Falk's father, is Freedman's proposal. (The 1858 census)
- **Falk Zhmood** — father: Alexander Zhmuydya — unverified. “Aleksander (Sender) Zmood, whose son Falk was the father of David”: no document gives Falk's patronymic. (Relationships among the Komisaruk, Zmood and Yovel families, according to Freedman (2020))

## The tree in this version

- Leizer Zhmuydya (c. 1725) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/leizer-zhmuydya/
  - Yehuda Zhmuydya (1748 – 1806) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/yehuda-zhmuydya/
    - Alexander Zhmuydya (1778 – 1834) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/alexander-zhmuydya/
      - Falk Zhmood (c. 1797 – 1840) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/falk-zhmood/
        - David Zmud (c. 1818 – 1880) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/david-zhmuydya/
          - married to Khana Reizel (child of Shlomo-Zalmen Komisaruk)
          - Koppel Zhmood (c. 1838 – c. 1900) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/koppel-zhmood/
            - married to Dvorka (child of Aba Senderov Zmudya and Chana)
            - Moshe Zhmood
            - Pesach Zhmood
            - Hinda Ana Zhmood
            - Manyik Zhmood
            - Tybel Zhmood
            - Felix Smud (c. 1860/68 – c. 1909) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/felix-smud/
              - married to Malke Noel (child of Meyer)
              - Alejandro Smud (1897 – 1959) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/alejandro-smud/
                - married to Isabel Loyber
              - Marcos Smud (1899 – 1951) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/marcos-smud/
                - married to Esther Klaiserburd
              - Aida Smud (1904 – 1992) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/aida-smud/
                - married to Pablo Freiberg
          - Falk Zhmood, the Nogaysk merchant (c. 1840 – 1904) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/falk-zhmood-nogaysk/
          - Leyzer Zhmood (s. XIX)
      - Aba Senderov Zmudya (c. 1802) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/aba-senderov-zmudya/
        - married to Chana (child of Mordechai Yovel)
        - Dvorka (c. 1838) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/dvorka-yovel/
          - married to Koppel Zhmood (child of David Zmud and Khana Reizel)
          - Moshe Zhmood
          - Pesach Zhmood
          - Hinda Ana Zhmood
          - Manyik Zhmood
          - Tybel Zhmood
          - Felix Smud (c. 1860/68 – c. 1909) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/felix-smud/
            - married to Malke Noel (child of Meyer)
            - Alejandro Smud (1897 – 1959) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/alejandro-smud/
              - married to Isabel Loyber
            - Marcos Smud (1899 – 1951) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/marcos-smud/
              - married to Esther Klaiserburd
            - Aida Smud (1904 – 1992) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/aida-smud/
              - married to Pablo Freiberg

## The other versions

- This research — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/
- What the documents show — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/documents/
- FamilySearch's collaborative tree — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/familysearch/
- The JewishGen trees — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/jewishgen/
- Chaim Freedman, February 2020 — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/freedman-february-2020/
- Oral tradition — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/oral-tradition/

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