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Category: Interpretation
Approval Date: 3/8/2026 1:59 PM
Family Surname: Flaster
Country: Hungary
Town: Topporcz
Date of Image: 1856

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The source of this document is Family Search (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9R77-19M?). I would love help with reading the names on the record (including the Hebrew if possible), the quality and writing isn't clear. I have just posted 2 other records for Moses Flaster from Topporcz mentioning 2 different wives so I'm trying to work out who is who and if this is the same Moses in all three cases. Thank you so much for any help. emmabcole@gmail.com

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3/8/2026 3:44 PM

LINE: 37

DATE OF BIRTH: 22 July 1856/57 [year is ambiguous]

DATE OF CIRCUMCISION OR BLESSING: 29 July

PLACE OF BIRTH: Topporz

PARENTS: Moses and Betty Flaster
Keil [this might be the mother’s maiden name]

NAME OF CIRCUMCISED CHILD:
[Hebrew characters]
Philipp Sigmond

WITNESSES:
Jacob Holländer [illegible/unrecognized abbreviation, looks like “ges.”]
Isak [Marius?] Feld
Hirschel [partially illegible, but “... operatöre” likely indicates “mohel”]

CLERGYMAN:

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Translated by Robert Rosenbaum (Ashland, Oregon)
Freelance translator and interpreter
M.A. in Translation and Interpretation (German-English), Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
rosenbaum.robert@gmail.com

3/9/2026

In Hebrew characters you have the infant's Yiddish name:
פייבל זעליק Feyvl Zelig [ey as in "eye", the e in Zelig as in "bed", and Z as in "zoo"]

The Hebrew character after Jacob spell ישראל וואלף = Yisrael Wolf

One of the persons in a circumcision is the Sandek (Sandak in Hebrew, sometimes called Pate in German documents). The Sandek is often one of the grandfathers, or an otherwise respected older man - friend or family member.

3/9/2026 12:09 AM

Date of birth according to the Hebrew calendar is the first day of the month of Av.

The 22 of July and the 1st of Av coincided in 1857.

https://www.hebcal.com/converter?hd=1&hm=Av&hy=5617&h2g=1

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