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Category: Translation - Hebrew
Approval Date: 2/18/2026 2:39 PM
Family Surname: Gerszenowicz
Country: Poland
Town: Warsaw
Date of Image: 1899-1900

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Hello ! I search as many as possible genealogical informations about Berko/boris Gerszenowicz and Krejna Golda Bloch
I think it is a testimony of their religious Marriage in Warsaw
Thank you !!!

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3/13/2026 7:31 AM

Looks like a kesuba/ketubah (marriage contract to support one's wife etc.) [written in Aramaic, the language of the Gemara/Talmud, see here for a full translation https://torah.org/learning/lifecycles-marriage-kesubah-english/]

Line 1: Wednesday, the 13th of the month of Kislev 5660 years from the creation
Line 2: of the world, corresponding to the way it is counted here (=Gregorian date calculations) -------- _______ [=THE NEXT WORD = word 6 of this line, IS PROBABLY THE TOWN WHERE THEY WERE AT THE TIME OF THE WRITING OF THIS CONTRACT, BUT CANNOT MAKE IT OUT, looks like MALKIL, last letter or last 2 letters may be wrong, see note below] - ------- how DOV BER son of Yehuda said to this virgin
Line 3: Mrs. KREINA GOLDA daughter of Eliezer Moshe you should be a wife to me according to the Jewish law...

* As you know "Dov" is the Hebrew word for a bear, that's why it goes together with the Yiddish word "Ber". His nickname was probably Berko = "ko" suffix added.

* 13 Kislev 5660 = November 14 or 15, 1899 (depending on if it was written after sunset of the 14th, or before sunset of the 15th) being that the Jewish day begins at around sunset and ends around sunset.

* Regarding the town, I have no idea what town this is, but if you don't know already the town name where they were from, try playing with https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp (lot more towns than the community database but lacks info) by choosing the "search method" dropdown.
I searched for towns "starting with" MALK, in POLAND, and there is a town MALKI (missing L at end if I read document correctly but...) 43.8 miles of Warsaw (the place you wrote in the question as your assumption - they could have been in the town of the bride).

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