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title: "People"
url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/
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: ""
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# People

- **Ester** — documented — Mother of Mark Yovel — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/ester-madre-de-mark/
- **Treina Ginzberg** (1700 – 1778) — documented — Mother of the Vilna Gaon — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/treina-ginzberg/
- **Yosef HaLevy** (c. 1695 – before 1765) — documented — Father of Meir Joselowicz Halevy — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/yosef-halevy/
- **Shlomo Zalman Kremer** (c. 1695 – 1758) — documented — Father of the Vilna Gaon — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/shlomo-zalman-kremer/
- **Yekhezekel Lazdei** (c. 1710 – c. 1782) — documented — Father of Avraham of Serhei — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/yekhezekel-lazdei/
- **Yovel** (1690) — documented — The oldest Yovel in the tree — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/yovel-1690/
- **Leizer Zhmuydya** (c. 1725) — unverified — The oldest name in the published tree — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/leizer-zhmuydya/
- **Beyla** (1720) — documented — Mother of David Komisaruk — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/beyla/
- **Chana bat Yehudah Leib** (1724 – 1782) — documented — Wife of the Vilna Gaon — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/chana-bat-yehuda-leib/
- **Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman** (1720 – 1797) — documented — The Vilna Gaon — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/gaon-de-vilna/
- **Meir Joselowicz Halevy** (1720 – 1765) — documented — Father of David Komisaruk — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/meir-joselowicz-halevy/
- **Esther Jaffe** (1738) — documented — Mother of both of Khana Reizel's grandmothers — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/esther-jaffe/
- **Rabbi Avraham of Serhei** (1735) — documented — Father of both of Khana Reizel's grandmothers — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/avraham-serdek/
- **Mark Yovel** (1705) — documented — Father of Zalman Yovel — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/mark-yovel/
- **Yehuda Zhmuydya** (1748 – 1806) — unverified — Second proposed generation — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/yehuda-zhmuydya/
- **Blume** — documented — Dvorka's great-grandmother — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/blume/
- **David Komisaruk** (1747 – 1816) — documented — Khana Reizel's paternal grandfather — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/david-komisaruk/
- **Rabbi Yehuda Leib Vilner Kramer** (1764 – 1816) — documented — Son of the Vilna Gaon — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/yehuda-leib-vilner-kramer/
- **Liba Serdek** (1766 – 1816) — documented — Daughter-in-law of the Vilna Gaon — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/liba-serdek/
- **Khana Serhei** (– 1785) — documented — Khana Reizel's paternal grandmother — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/khana-serhei/
- **Zalman Yovel** (1725) — documented — Dvorka's great-grandfather — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/zalman-yovel/
- **Alexander Zhmuydya** (1778 – 1834) — unverified — Third proposed generation — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/alexander-zhmuydya/
- **Rabbi Eliyahu-Zev** — documented — Ita's father — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/eliyahu-zev/
- **Dov-Ber (Berel) Komisaruk** (1776 – 1843) — documented — Khana Reizel's father, according to Freedman — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/zev-velvel-komisaruk/
- **Esther Leib** (1785 – 1860) — documented — Granddaughter of the Vilna Gaon — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/esther-leib/
- **Rouza** — documented — Dvorka's grandmother — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/rouza/
- **Yovel Yovel** (1745) — documented — Dvorka's grandfather — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/yovel-yovel/
- **Falk Zhmood** (c. 1797 – 1840) — documented — The oldest documented ancestor — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/falk-zhmood/
- **Ita** (1784) — documented — Dvorka's mother — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/ita/
- **Khana Reizel** (c. 1820 – 1885) — documented — David's wife · Koppel's mother — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/khana-reizel-komisaruk/
- **Mordechai Yovel** (1788 – 1831) — documented — Dvorka's father — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/mordechai-yovel/
- **David Zmud** (c. 1818 – 1880) — documented — The one who moved from the Baltic to the south — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/david-zhmuydya/
- **Aba Senderov Zmudya** (c. 1802) — documented — Dvorka's father, according to the 1858 census — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/aba-senderov-zmudya/
- **Dvorka** (c. 1838) — documented — Koppel's wife · Felix's mother — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/dvorka-yovel/
- **Meyer** — documented — Malke's father — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/meyer-padre-de-malke/
- **Falk Zhmood, the Nogaysk merchant** (c. 1840 – 1904) — documented — Koppel's brother · Felix's uncle — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/falk-zhmood-nogaysk/
- **Koppel Zhmood** (c. 1838 – c. 1900) — documented — Felix's father — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/koppel-zhmood/
- **Malke Noel** (c. 1874 – c. 1915) — documented — Crossed the Atlantic alone with three children — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/malke-noel/
- **Felix Smud** (c. 1860/68 – c. 1909) — documented — Butcher · Russian army soldier · deserter — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/felix-smud/
- **Julio Manowsky** (c. 1910 – 1970s) — family memory — The half-brother — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/julio/
- **Aida Smud** (1904 – 1992) — documented — Crossed the Atlantic at six months old — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/aida-smud/
- **Alejandro Smud** (1897 – 1959) — documented — Bookkeeper · general store in Maciá — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/alejandro-smud/
- **Marcos Smud** (1899 – 1951) — documented — The boy in the Mariupol birth record — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/marcos-smud/

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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