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title: "Ludza"
url: https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/places/ludza/
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: "A town in the east of present-day Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire. The family lived there until 1846, when David Zmud moved south."
---
# Ludza

A town in the east of present-day Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire. The family lived there until 1846, when David Zmud moved south.

- Country today: Latvia
- The family here: until 1846
- Other spellings: Lutzin, Lucin, Люцин, Ludzas
- Coordinates: 56.54, 27.72

## What is known

The family lived in Ludza, a town now in eastern Latvia that then belonged to the Russian Empire. In documents of the period it also appears as Lutzin or Lucin. It had a large and long-established Jewish community.

In 1846 David Zmud left Ludza. Together with other Jewish families from the same area he moved south, to the agricultural colonies the Russian government had opened in what is now Ukraine.

Ludza is also where Falk, his son David and his grandson Koppel were born, and where the 1816 census that would confirm who Falk's father was should be found.

## Who was here

- Falk Zhmood — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/falk-zhmood/
- David Zmud — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/david-zhmuydya/
- Koppel Zhmood — https://smud.mateosmud.xyz/en/people/koppel-zhmood/

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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