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Submitted by Mark A Baron

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 3/10/2010
Family Surname: Ginandes, Gendes, ?
Country: Russia
Date of Image: late 1800's
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It is a katuba (marriage document). I need names, dates, places. It was in the possession of Wolf Ginandes' descendants. This is the best copy I have. Thanks.

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3/11/2010 Sorry, but I think, this is Hebrew.
3/12/2010 On Thurday, the 8th day of the month of Tamuz in the year 5647 [30 June 1887]

Groom: Shmuel Hilel son of the teacher and Rabbi Zeev Wolf [Zeev means literaly a wolf]

Bride: Shime daughter of R' [not necessarily a rabbi) Aharon [last name Fine?]

Other names at the bottom(witnesses?):
[indecipherable and then] Yekhezkel Feivil Katz, a "Shokhet u-Bodek" [Slaughterer and one who check's if the meat is kosher based on halakhic rules].

Yehoshua son of R' Aharon Y. Halevi Epstein

The town looks like it starts with Ster--

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