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Submitted by David Mark Gitman

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Category: Translation - Russian
Approval Date: 8/30/2026 8:22 PM
Family Surname: Gitman, Hitman, Tuchsznajder
Country: Poland
Town: Biskupice
Date of Image: 1886
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Please transcribe this 1886 Russian-language Jewish birth record as fully as possible, preserving uncertain readings as [unclear], and provide an English translation. Please identify the exact birth and registration dates; the child’s full name; both parents’ full names (including the mother’s maiden surname), ages, occupations, residence and birthplaces; and all witnesses, declarants and marginal notes. Preliminary, unconfirmed reading may involve Wolf Gitman and Idesa Tuchsznajder. Please say whether this household matches the 1885 act submitted separately, and note any death or late-registration wording. Source: Polish State Archives, Archiwum Państwowe w Lublinie, Biskupice Jewish birth register, fonds 35/1614/0/2.21/96, act 13, 1886, unit 298419.

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8/31/2026 1:51 PM Акт 13. Хаим Гитман. Посад Бискупице.Chaim Hitman.

Состоялось в посаде Бискупице 18/30 июня 1886 года в 9 часов утра.
Явился лично старозаконный Wolf Hitman/Вольф Гитман, работник, 21 год, живущий в посаде Бискупице, и в присутствии свидетелей старозаконных Нусен Бурштин, крамара (Крамар (от слова «крам» — мелочной, щепетильный товар) — это еврейский лавочник или разносчик, который торговал мелкими, часто женскими товарами: иголками, нитками, лентами, другими мелочами.) , 52 год и Янкель Гольдбург, школьника,47 лет, оба два в посаде Бискупице живущих, и предъявили нам младенца мужского пола, объявляя ,что он родился в посаде Бискупице 11/23 июня текущего года (1886 года) в 6 часов утра от его жены Идесы из Тухшнайдеров (девичья фамилия Тухшнайдер), супругов Гитманов,21 год.
Младенцу этому при обрезании дано имя Хаим Гитман.
Акт этот присутствующему и свидетелям прочитан, нами и ими подписан.
Отец объявил, что писать не умеет.
Чиновник Гражданского состояния.
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Act 13. Chaim Hitman. The settlement of Biskupice.Chaim Hitman.

Took place in the settlement of Biskupice on June 18/30, 1886, at 9 a.m. The old—law Wolf Hitman/Wolf Hitman, a 21—year-old employee living in Biskupice Posad, personally appeared, and in the presence of witnesses, the old-law Nussen Burshtin, kramara (Kramar (from the word "cram" - petty, scrupulous goods) is a Jewish shopkeeper or peddler who sold small, often feminine goods: needles, thread, ribbons, and other small things.), 52 years old and Yankel Goldburg, a schoolboy, 47 years old, both of them living in Biskupice Posad, and presented us with a male baby, announcing that he
was born in Biskupice Posad on June 11/23 of this year (1886) at 6 a.m. from his wife Idesa of Tuchschneider (maiden name Tukhschneider), the Gitmans, 21 years old.
This infant was given the name Chaim Gitman at the time of circumcision.
This document was read to those present and to the witnesses, and signed by us and them.
The father declared that he could not write.
Civil Registry Office official.
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