Menachem Mendel Gurary

Kremenchug, Poltava's Guberniya, Ukraine, Russia.

The first records of Jewish life in the city date back to 1782. Tax records from 1801 list 454 formally registered Jewish residents. According to the 1897 census, Jewish population of the city was 29,869 out of a general population of 63,000. Many Jews worked in tailoring, or in tobacco factories belonging to the Gurari family.

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• ************************************************************************************ Some facts from marriage record of 9/6/1887: GURARIY, Mendel , 20 y.o. - son of Zelman, merchant from Kremenchug; A maiden, KAUSHANSKY, Sheyndlya / Sheindel , 17 y.o., a daughter of Yosif (Yos), a Kishinev 2nd guild merchant, Dowry of 48 Rubles
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