Divorce Records - Chișinău, Moldova - 1900

Below is an example of a page of Jewish divorce records in a column/table format. This document is from the city of Chișinău, which is the capital of Moldova today.

Russian/Divorces Kishinev 1900 — "Молдова метрические книги, 1811-1936," images, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 13 April 2023), Jewish divorce records, Kishinev, Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire, DGS no. 5608624, image no. 826 of 1104.

The following transcription shows the column headings of the document translated into English, followed by each row from the original document in typed Russian and translated into English (the page written in Hebrew will not be translated here, as it repeats the same information listed in Russian). The document has been broken into a table for each entry with the headings in English accompanying each one for easier reading (to see the headings in modernized Russian, go to the Divorce Records Overview page of this tutorial). Use the numerals in the far left column to keep track of which row is being transcribed or translated.

Part III. About those divorced.
No.	Years [of age]		Who performs the rite of divorce or chalitzah and who were witnesses when it was performed.	Date and month		For what reasons	By whose decision	Who exactly is divorced from whom by divorce or through a chalitzah
No.	Female	Male		Christian	Hebrew	For what reasons	By whose decision
15	34	47	Раввинъ и свидѣтели: Рувинъ Рехтеръ, Гершъ Ройзинштейнъ и Вольфъ Меламудъ	Февраль 1	Шватъ 23	По ненависти	Сами согласились къ разводу	Разведникъ Кишиневскiй мѣщанинъ Мошко-Ицекъ Iоселевъ Зильберманъ, разведница Хая-Рухля Лехтенбергъ, Кишиневская мѣщанка.
15	34	47	Rabbi and witnesses: Ruvin Rekhter, Gersh Royzinshtein and Volf Melamud	February 1	Shevat 23	Out of hatred	They themselves [the couple] agreed upon a divorce	Divorcé Kishinev petty bourgeois Moshko-Itsek Ioselev Zelberman, divorcée Khaya-Rukhlya Lekhtenberg, Kishinev petty bourgeois.

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Part III. About those divorced.
No.	Years [of age]		Who performs the rite of divorce or chalitzah and who were witnesses when it was performed.	Date and month		For what reasons	By whose decision	Who exactly is divorced from whom by divorce or through a chalitzah
No.	Female	Male		Christian	Hebrew	For what reasons	By whose decision
16	23	27	Раввинъ и свидѣтели: Мееръ-Сруль Гольденштейнъ, Мордко Марменскiй и Яковъ Калiйскiй.	13	Адаръ 5	По ненависти	Сами согласились къ разводу	Разведникъ Кишиневскiй мѣщанинъ Хаимъ Берковъ Зельцеръ, разведница Ита Шмулевна Янкелевичъ, Кишиневская мѣщанка.
16	23	27	Rabbi and witnesses: Meyer-Srul Goldenshtein, Mordko Marmensky and Yakov Kalisky.	13	Adar 5	Out of hatred	They themselves [the couple] agreed upon a divorce	Divorcé Kishinev petty bourgeois Khaim Berkov Zeltser, divorcée Ita Shmulevna Yankelevich, Kishinev petty bourgeois.

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Part III. About those divorced.
No.	Years [of age]		Who performs the rite of divorce or chalitzah and who were witnesses when it was performed.	Date and month		For what reasons	By whose decision	Who exactly is divorced from whom by divorce or through a chalitzah
No.	Female	Male		Christian	Hebrew	For what reasons	By whose decision
17	36	43	Раввинъ и свидѣтели: Срул-Хаимъ Солтоновичъ, Шоиль Гифейзманъ и Берко Куцакъ.	15	7	По ненависти	Сами согласились къ разводу	Разведникъ Подольской Гуьернiи М. Варницы Мошко Сруль-Гершковъ Шульманъ, разведница Махля Пейсах Аронова Слодникъ, Слонимская мѣщанка.
17	36	43	Rabbi and witnesses: Srul-Khaim Soltonovich, Shoil Gifeyzman and Berko Kutsak.	15	7	Out of hatred	They themselves [the couple] agreed upon a divorce	Divorcé Podolia gubernia petty bourgeois of Varnitsa Moshko Srul-Gershkov Shulman, divorcée Makhlya Peysakh Aronova Slodnik, Slonimsky petty bourgeois.

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