It happened in the town of Nur on the seventeenth of May, eighteen hundred eighty three at one o’clock in the afternoon that the Jew Mendel [Moshe Mendel son of Boruch Ha-Levy] Tachna, age twenty two, shoemaker, residing in the town of Nur, appeared in the presence of the witnesses Szrul Szarf, age fifty one, and Sana Kur, age fifty five, both shoemakers and residing in the town of Nur, and showed us a child of the female gender, born in the town of Nur on the fifth of May of the current year at five o’clock in the evening from his wife Channah Sura, maiden name Sztein, age twenty, to whom at the religious ceremony was given the name Dwejra Gitla [Devorah Gitla daughter of Moshe Mendel Ha-Levy]. This document was comprehensibly read to the father and the witnesses, and only signed by us, whereas they testified that they cannot write.
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