28 May 1910, Saturday

Drohobych. The circumcision ceremony of Bruno Schulz’s younger nephew takes place.

The witnesses of this event1 are Dawid Wolf Roller (a melamed)2 – who also performed this function during Bruno Schulz’s circumcision ceremony – and Isaak Rothman (also a melamed). During the ceremony, the son* of Moses and Hanna Hoffman is given the name Zygmunt*3.

See also: 17 November 1900, 10 April 1903, 21 May 1910. (ts) (transl. mw)

  • 1
    For more on circumcision and the role of the witness, see https://www.jhi.pl/psj/obrzezanie and https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/slownik/brit-mila-obrzezanie.
  • 2
    See https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/slownik/szkolnik.
  • 3
    Central Archives of Historical Records, Record books of Jewish communities from the area “behind the Bug River”, 1789–1943, reference number 1/300/0/-/2830, sheet 73.