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title: "Khana Serhei"
url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/khana-serhei/
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: "Wife of David Komisaruk. Daughter of Avraham of Serhei and Esther Jaffe, as was Liba Serdek: the two branches that lead down to Khana Reizel start from the same marriage."
---
# Khana Serhei

**Evidence status: documented.** Wife of David Komisaruk. Daughter of Avraham of Serhei and Esther Jaffe, as was Liba Serdek: the two branches that lead down to Khana Reizel start from the same marriage.

– 1785 · Khana Reizel's paternal grandmother

## Summary

- Died: 1785
- Married: around 1765, Lithuania

## Family

- Father: Rabbi Avraham of Serhei — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/avraham-serdek/
- Mother: Esther Jaffe — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/esther-jaffe/
- Married: David Komisaruk — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/david-komisaruk/
- Children: Dov-Ber (Berel) Komisaruk — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/zev-velvel-komisaruk/

## What is known

There is a twist worth looking at slowly. Khana Serhei and Liba Serdek —in Eliyahu's Branches, the paternal and maternal grandmothers of Khana Reizel, David's wife, a filiation the 1858 census contradicts— are both listed as daughters of Avraham of Serhei and Esther Jaffe. If the reconstruction is right, two of Khana Reizel's four pairs of great-grandparents are in fact the same couple.

## 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/GW4S-PPL

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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