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title: "Rabbi Avraham of Serhei"
url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/avraham-serdek/
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: "Listed as the father of Khana Serhei and of Liba Serdek, the two grandmothers Eliyahu's Branches gave Khana Reizel, David's wife. If the reconstruction is right, the two branches meet here."
---
# Rabbi Avraham of Serhei

**Evidence status: documented.** Listed as the father of Khana Serhei and of Liba Serdek, the two grandmothers Eliyahu's Branches gave Khana Reizel, David's wife. If the reconstruction is right, the two branches meet here.

1735 · Father of both of Khana Reizel's grandmothers

## Other spellings

Avraham of Serhei Serdek

## Summary

- Born: 1735

## Family

- Father: Yekhezekel Lazdei — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/yekhezekel-lazdei/
- Married: Esther Jaffe — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/esther-jaffe/
- Children: Khana Serhei — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/khana-serhei/
- Children: Liba Serdek — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/liba-serdek/

## What is known

This is where the tree folds back on itself. Khana Serhei and Liba Serdek, the mothers of Dov-Ber Komisaruk and of his wife Ester, are both listed as daughters of Avraham and Esther Jaffe.

It is not unusual in a small community —two sisters married into two branches that later cross again—, but it is worth keeping in mind when counting generations: on that side, Khana Reizel's great-grandparents are not eight people but six.

His FamilySearch profile, and Esther Jaffe's, carry a data warning from the site itself.

## Where this comes from

- Chaim Freedman's work (documented) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/sources/#freedman
- FamilySearch (documented) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/sources/#familysearch

## In FamilySearch's collaborative tree (not a source)

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G4L7-SDG

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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