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Category: Translation - Russian
Approval Date: 8/27/2025 2:18 PM
Family Surname: Koshkin
Country: Ukraine
Town: Gorodnya
Date of Image: 1909

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Records 52,53 are supposed to be for births of son Natan and Isay, 31 May 1909, to Moysh son of Leyb and Khaya daughter of Moisey. If you can confirm that information, I'd appreciate it. If the information below the line is relevant, please let me know. Thank you.

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8/28/2025 2:34 AM

Hello Lee,

The only part that I can read with certainty is the Hebrew writing in the far right column. Also, I do not read or speak Russian, so I do not know what the headings contain or provide. I can only offer you these little bits of info.

(Third name down R to L):
Notan -
Moshe, son of Leyb and Chaya, daughter of Moshe.....
Hebrew date: Sivan 24
Civil date: May 31

Jo

8/29/2025 8:32 AM

Birth record
Nr. 52 (male)
Nr. 53 (male)

Who performed the rite of circumcision: Leyb Koshkin being permitted by the Rabbi

Date of birth (Christian): May 31
Date of circumcision: June 7

Place of birth: Snovsk

Parents:
father - KOSHKIN Moysha, son of Leyb
mother - Khaya, daughter of Mosey
they are petty bourgeois of Novgorod-Seversky

Name of children born:
twins
Natan
Isay

[Additionally written near the record numbers]:
Nr. 52: issued in July 11/24, 1913?
Nr. 53: issued in July 11/24, 1913
-----------------------------
[Comment of the author of translation: below written, under the line, it is statistic message of the holder of the book]:

In May of 15 newborn Jews 6 females and 9 males, total 15 babies were born

June 8, 1909. According to rules we recorded and certified births in May:
in May in the town of Gorodnia and its district
Number of female babies born: 6
Number of male children born: 9
Total: 15
Corrections made:
In birth record Nr. 51 (male), Column 4
"17" crossed out
"21" added

"24" crossed out
"28" added

The data written in the book is accurate

Public Rabbi: (signature)
Educated person: (signature)
Chairman of the community: (signature)
----------------------------

8/29/2025 8:59 AM

Rec. 52-52:
Twins
Nosson
Male
Yeshay' (Yeshayahu) (The rec spells his name abbreviated as per tradition being that the last three letters of Yeshayahu written in a row Yud- Hey-Vuv" spell out one of God's names which we are careful not to do as one of the ten commandments is not to mention G-ds name in vain).

PARENTS: Moshe son of Leib and Chaya daughter of Moshe from Novgorod-Seversk

BIRTH: 24th day in (The Jewish month of) Sivan ( in the 5669th year since the world was created) (in the town) Seversk: May 31, 1909 (Julian Calendar)
BRIS MILAH (Circumcision): the Jewish month of Tamuz
Day 1. : June 7th (Julian Calendar)
COMMENTS: Authorized by Rabbi Leib Koshkin:

My Observations:
24th of Sivan, 5669 = Sunday June 13, 1909 (our Gregorian calendar)
1st of Tamuz, 5669 = Sunday June 20 1909 (our Gregorian calendar)
This within the Russian Empire of the Czars in 1909 so the civil records were according to the Julian Calendar.
All the names are biblical or biblically derived.
The names of the twins are biblical. Both Nosson and Yeshayahu were prophets in Scripture. Nosson advised Kings Dovid and Shlomo (Solomon) and 350 years later Yeshayahu lived in the times of Kings Uzziah, Achaz and Chizkiyahu.

Moshe= Moses
Leib= The name Leib is a Yiddish name.

In the Torah in Bereishis (Genesis) (49:9) When Yaakov (Jacob) blessed his 12 sons before he died, he blessed his fourth son, Yehuda, (Ancestor of King David) with
גּוּר אַרְיֵה יְהוּדָה מִטֶּרֶף בְּנִי עָלִיתָ כָּרַע רָבַץ כְּאַרְיֵה וּכְלָבִיא מִי יְקִימֶֽנּוּ
"A cub [and] a grown lion is Judah. From the prey, my son, you withdrew. He crouched, rested like a lion, and like a lion, who will rouse him?"
The first word for lion at the beginning of the verse is "Aryeh" & the 2nd word used for lion at the end of the verse is "Lavie or Labie." Both words are Hebrew words for lion used till today.
Thus the symbol for the tribe of Yehudah is the Lion. Also as a result, the name Leib became a common Yiddish sobriquet for males named Aryeh or Yehuda.
i.e. There was a famous Hasidic Rebbe 200 years ago Rabbi Moishe Leib of Sassov. The last Rabbi of the city of Slonim, Poland killed by the Nazi's in 1941 was Rabbi Yehuda Leib Fein HY"D.
One of the worlds most renown Cantors was the famous Chazan /singer, Arye Leib Schlossberg (1860-1925),
My neighbor named his son Yehuda Leib.
In my own family tree research, I have found relatives named Yehuda Leib and Aryeh Leib, whose civil names varied between Juda, Leopold, Lipot, and Leon.

The lower half of the page in Hebrew seems to be a summation written by the Rabbis or Jewish community clerk of the births in the town that month.

The total amount of Jews born in the Month of May were 6 females and 9 males totaling 15.
IN 1909 to the best of my knowledge and what i can attest to that in the Month of May that past in our city there were Jewish births in Gorodnya and its environs six 6 females and nine 9 males totaling fifteen 15. This up to date and without any derivation.
Signed the Government appointed Rabbi
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