---
title: "Liba Serdek"
url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/liba-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: "Wife of Yehuda Leib and mother of Esther Leib. Daughter of Avraham of Serhei and Esther Jaffe."
---
# Liba Serdek

**Evidence status: documented.** Wife of Yehuda Leib and mother of Esther Leib. Daughter of Avraham of Serhei and Esther Jaffe.

1766 – 1816 · Daughter-in-law of the Vilna Gaon

## Summary

- Born: 1766
- Died: 1816

## 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: Rabbi Yehuda Leib Vilner Kramer — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/yehuda-leib-vilner-kramer/
- Children: Esther Leib — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/esther-leib/

## What is known

A daughter of the same couple as Khana Serhei, the other grandmother Eliyahu's Branches gave Khana Reizel. She died the same year as her husband.

That she was Yehuda Leib's wife comes from Freedman's reconstruction, which is what the whole of this part of the tree rests on.

## 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/GPK8-K5H

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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