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Category: Translation - German
Approval Date: 8/2/2026 5:10 PM
Family Surname: MANDEL, LEINWAND
Town: Przemyślany

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I would be grateful for a second opinion on one word.

This is a Jewish birth register from Przemyslany, Galicia, 1905. In a single cell the clerk writes a man's first name, and then a few words later writes a second word, which I have been reading as an abbreviated occupation, "Handl."

Both are marked on the image. My question is simply this: are they the same word, or two different ones?

This follows on from an earlier question of mine, in which a kind responder suggested that the second word might be a name rather than a trade. I would rather not say which way I lean.

Thank you.

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8/2/2026 5:16 PM

Hello,
It is my impression that the second word reads "verh." That would be an abbreviation of "verheiratet" meaning "married," referring to the woman as married to Hersch Mandel.

8/2/2026 6:21 PM

Thank you — and I should tell you that your six-minute reply overturned something I had been carrying as settled for a week.

I had read that abbreviation as "Handl.", for Handelsmann, and had it recorded as my great-great-grandfather's occupation. A previous responder thought it might be the name Hirsch. Neither of us was right — it is "verh.", as you say.

The consequence is larger than one word. It appears in the same position in every household in the volume, which I had taken as evidence of a common trade. It was the opposite: the word is part of the printed formula, not part of the record. I have had to strike an occupation from an ancestor and re-read the register's whole structure.

Thank you for reading it blind and telling me what was actually there.

Adam Mandel

8/2/2026 6:44 PM

Hello Adam,

What you have notated as "A" is the name HERSCH.....Jo

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Submitted by Adam Dean Mandel

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Submitted by Adam Dean Mandel