Nusin Shmulevich from Beltsy

[Lisa Liel lisa@starways.net]

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Okay... this is a conundrum I've run into, and I was hoping for a sanity
check.

My great-grandfather Isadore Lovitt came from Beltsy, Moldova to America
in 1905. His name when he got here was Itzik Smulevitz, and his parents
were Nusin and Paya Smulevitz (or more likely there Shmulevich). He was
born in 1875, and had at least one older sibling, a brother.

Paya is a pretty uncommon name. The story I've been told by people who
have since died is that Nusin came from Lithuania, and was therefore
known as Nusin Litvak. He'd been a rabbinic student, and had been set up
with Paya, who was deaf. And a shrew. And when he couldn't take it any
more, he fled, running off to Beltsy. Paya's brother went looking for
him, and when he found him, he brought Paya to Beltsy as well.

So I've been poking around on JewishGen. Nusin (or Nosson, or Natan),
while not nearly as rare as Paya, was still fairly unusual there. In the
1906 Duma Voters list, I found only two men named Nusin Shmulevich. One
whose father's name was Shimon, and one whose father's name was Gutman
(which raises a whole other question, since I never heard of that as a
first name).

And then I went over to the Lithuania database there and paged through
the records. And lo and behold, in the 1898 revision list for
Vilijampole Kaunas Lithuania, I found a Nusin, son of Gutman. Who was
born in 1845. Whose wife's name was Paya.

So what are the odds of a Nusin Gutmanov Shmulevich, around the same
age, married to a woman named Paya, and appearing first in Lithuania and
then Beltsy, Moldova 8 years later?

And then I looked at their children. This is the list of children, and
their ages, from the revision list in Vilijampole:

Itzik Meyer 28

Movsha Yankel 23
Antsel 19
Leah 16
Eliyash 14

And this is the list of his children that I'm aware of and ages they
would have been in 1898:

Morris (Moshe) 25

Isadore (Itzik) 23
Zisha 18
Taube ?
Eli 1

And it's not an exact match, but documents back then weren't always
entirely reliable. But Morris could be Movsha Yankel, and Isadore could
be Itzik Meyer. I have Eli's rough date of birth from Yad Vashem
records, which is problematic. Taube's daughter was born in 1917, so if
she was a Tova Leah (not an uncommon combination), that could be here.
And Anshel and Zisha are different names as well.

So am I looking for a connection that's not really there? Is the Nusin
Gutmanov Shmulevich and his wife Paya with their five kids first in
Lithuania and then in Beltsy a coincidence?

And what kind of first name is Gutman?  Is it another form of Bunim?

Thanks,

Lisa Liel
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