---
title: "David Zmud"
url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/david-zhmuydya/
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: "Born in Ludza, died in Andreyevka. He left the Baltic in 1846 and settled as an agricultural colonist in Novy Zlatopol. The 1858 census records him with his whole household."
---
# David Zmud

**Evidence status: documented.** Born in Ludza, died in Andreyevka. He left the Baltic in 1846 and settled as an agricultural colonist in Novy Zlatopol. The 1858 census records him with his whole household.

c. 1818 – 1880 · The one who moved from the Baltic to the south

## Other spellings

David Falikov Zmud, David Zhmuyd, David Zhmuydya, David Falikov Zhmud, Давид

## Summary

- Born: around 1818, Ludza
- Died: 1880, Andreyevka
- Left Ludza: 1846
- Colonist in: Novy Zlatopol, from c. 1850
- Documented in: 1858 census, household 47/92

## Family

- Father: Falk Zhmood — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/falk-zhmood/
- Married: Khana Reizel — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/khana-reizel-komisaruk/
- Children: Koppel Zhmood — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/koppel-zhmood/
- Children: Falk Zhmood, the Nogaysk merchant — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/falk-zhmood-nogaysk/
- Children: Leyzer Zhmood

## What is known

He was the one who made the journey. In 1846 he left Ludza together with other Jewish families from the same area and moved south, to the agricultural colonies the Russian government had opened in what is now Ukraine. By about 1850 he was settled in Novy Zlatopol.

In the 1858 census he is 40, with three sons in the household. The document records him as “David Falikov Zmud”: thanks to that single word we know, with a document in hand, what his father was called.

He married Khana Reizel. The 1858 census calls her Khana, daughter of Zalka. For years Chaim Freedman identified her as Khana Reizel Komisaruk, daughter of Dov-Ber Komisaruk and Ester and a great-granddaughter of the Vilna Gaon, a version that census contradicts; he later proposed that she was a daughter of Shlomo-Zalmen Komisaruk, but that identification is his proposal: no known document names the parents of David's wife.

## Parentage, version by version

- What the documents show (https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/documents/) — father: Falk Zhmood — documented. “Давидъ Фаликовъ”: David, son of Falik.
- Chaim Freedman, February 2020 (https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/family-tree/freedman-february-2020/) — father: Falk Zhmood; mother: Ester — unverified. Son of Falk, as the census says, and of an Ester no document of this research names.

## Surname variants

- Zmud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/name-variants/zmud/
- Zhmuydya — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/name-variants/zhmuydya/

## In the timeline

- c. 1818 — David Zmud is born in Ludza
- 1846 — David leaves Ludza
- c. 1850 — The family settles in the colony
- 1858 — The colony census
- 1880 — David dies

## Places

- Ludza — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/ludza/
- Novy Zlatopol — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/novy-zlatopol/
- Andreyevka — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/andreyevka/
- Ekaterinoslav — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/ekaterinoslav/
- Aleksandrovsk

## Where this comes from

- The 1858 census (documented) — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/sources/#censo-1858

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

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/PX8J-JG2

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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