Eyzyk Blufogel (b.1745) - The Bernstein-Dahne Genealogy Wiki

# Eyzyk Blufogel (b.1745)  > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **6x great-grandfather** **Born** ~1745 **Died** bef 1798 — [[Łęczna]] **Parents** [[Aron (b.1720)]] **Spouse** [[Raca (b.1744)]] **Children** [[Nowak Blufogel (b.1769)]] · [[Zlota Dwojra Blufogel (b.1779)]] · [[Rywka Basia Blufogel (b.1785)]] *GEDCOM I510921 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01*  ## Narrative *bio: full · updated 2026-07-04* Eyzyk was born about **1745**, a son of [[Aron (b.1720)]]. Through the whole of his documented life the fixed surname *Blufogel* did not yet exist — the Jews of Łęczna took hereditary surnames only around 1821, a generation after his death — so in the town's oblata and notarial books he is set down under his patronymic as **"Ayzik Aronowicz,"** Eyzyk son of Aron. He married [[Raca (b.1744)]], recorded in the same style as **"Raca Koplowna"** (later "Raca Koplowiczowna"), a daughter of [[Jankiel Kopel (b.1720)]] — Raca daughter of Kopel. The identification of "Ayzik Aronowicz" with the later Blufogel family is not a guess but the reading their own descendants' deeds compel: the 1807 arbitration over his estate names his widow "Raca Koplowiczowna" and his children Noech and Zlata Dwoyra, and those children carry the Blufogel name in the records of the following decade.[^ident] He first surfaces in the record not as a name in a register but in the middle of a small commercial dispute. Some time before the summer of **1785**, Eyzyk sold a Christian townsman, **Paweł Sobestyan Mederski**, a horse — a *koń batawski*, a "Batavian horse," the kind of stock a dealer would keep — and let him take it on credit for **240 złp**. The money went unpaid, and when the matter was finally settled it was entered into the town books: an oblata of **24 August 1785** records the late Mederski's 240-złp debt "for a Batavian horse taken on credit from the *Starozakonny* [Old-Testament / Jewish] Ayzik Aronowicz," noting that it had since been paid.[^horse] It is a modest entry, but a telling one. It is his earliest known appearance — eight years before any record previously tied to him — and it shows him already as a man of standing: someone with horses to sell, extending credit to a Christian burgher and pursuing the debt through the municipal books. He kept the company of the town's other Jewish creditors; in the very same book, three years earlier, the direct ancestor [[Rubin Edelsztajn (b.1744)]] (recorded as "Rubin Iłowicz") had had his own dealings with the same Mederski family, the two men's records standing almost back-to-back.[^horse] Eyzyk and Raca held a **brick house on the Rynek Wygonowy**, the "Wygon" market square, standing among the merchants' stalls (*kramy*). In a town built mostly of timber and repeatedly gutted by fire — the fire of the mid-1790s among them — a masonry house was no small thing; it was a marker of means and permanence, the kind of property a family built once and held for generations. That the house was a fixed landmark of the neighbourhood is clear from how the town's scribes used it to locate other properties: a 1793 house-deed of his wife's kin, the Hochbergers, fixes one boundary of their own house as running *"opposite the brick house of the heirs left by the late Ayzik Aronowicz."*[^died] That phrase also dates his death. By the time the deed was drawn — signed in early **1798** and later copied into the notarial book — Eyzyk was already spoken of as dead and his house already passed to "heirs," so he had **died before 1798**, at perhaps a little past fifty.[^died] The fullest picture of what he left behind comes, paradoxically, from a document made almost a decade after he died. By **1807** the ownership of the brick house on the Wygon square had grown tangled between his widow and his grown children, and rather than let it end in lawsuits the family agreed to binding **arbitration**. Three respected men were named as arbitrators — Judka Peysach Kohan, Natan Lewenszteyn (a merchant of Lublin), and Dow Berko Szmulowicz (a citizen and merchant of Lubartów) — and on **8 November 1807** they handed down a settlement dividing Eyzyk's house among his heirs.[^arb] The widow **Raca** was to keep the heart of the property for the whole of her life: the **main brick house among the stalls, the shop (*sklep*) facing the street on the south side, and the ground and cellar beneath it**. His son-in-law **Icko Oszyowicz Leywi (Balter)** — husband of his daughter Zlota Dwoyra, who had, the settlement recites, put his own money into building and founding the house for the benefit of the widow and her children — was granted the **rear room (*izba*) on the north side** for as long as his mother-in-law lived, on condition that he keep it in repair at his own cost; and during the great **June and September fairs** he was to have the right to run a tavern (*szynk*) and sell drink there, sharing the room and the cellar with his brother-in-law Nowak so that both might profit while the fairs filled the square.[^arb] Between the two children the settlement fixed a debt: Nowak acknowledged **1,350 złp** owed to his sister Zlota Dwoyra, "a pure and certain debt," secured on the shop — repayable only after their mother's death, at 450 złp a year from the third year on, with the shop itself forfeit to Zlota Dwoyra if he defaulted, and her right of first refusal should he ever sell his share, "as the closest blood relative."[^arb] Behind the dry clauses one can read the shape of the household Eyzyk had built: a valuable corner property on the market square, worth arbitrating over, worth binding the next generation to. His children were [[Nowak Blufogel (b.1769)]], [[Zlota Dwojra Blufogel (b.1779)]] and [[Rywka Basia Blufogel (b.1785)]]. Raca outlived him by nearly thirty years, dying in Łęczna in 1826. The direct line into Ozzy's ancestry runs through the youngest daughter, **Rywka Basia**. [^ident]: In the pre-surname Łęczna records Eyzyk appears only as **Ayzik / Eyzyk Aronowicz** (son of [[Aron (b.1720)]]). The link to the later surname *Blufogel* rests on his own family's deeds: the 1807 family arbitration (jedn. 1753843, akta 105) names his widow "Raca Koplowiczowna," son Noech (Nowak) and daughter Zlata Dwoyra, and those children are recorded with the Blufogel surname in the following decade (e.g. Nowak in akta 135). See ## Research. [^horse]: Oblata entered **24 Aug 1785**, Łęczna *Akta Miasta*, APL 35/44/0/1/29, jedn. 1753834, sc.[330](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/1753834?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=330): the late Paweł Sobestyan Mederski's 240-złp debt for a "Batavian horse" (*koń batawski*) taken on credit from "the *Starozakonny* Ayzik Aronowicz," since paid. His earliest known record (see ## Research). The same Mederski family's dealings with [[Rubin Edelsztajn (b.1744)]] ("Rubin Iłowicz") appear at sc.329 (1782) in the same book. Extraction: [[Łęczna - 1768-1789 - Akta Miasta]]. [^died]: House-deed of the Hochberger family, jedn. 1753843, akta 173, sc.[173](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/1753843?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=173); the deed locates their house opposite "the brick house of the heirs left by the late Ayzik Aronowicz," and was signed 8 Jan 1798 and copied into the notarial book on 21 Jan 1808, per MyHeritage biography on this profile — placing Eyzyk's death before 1798. [^arb]: 1807 family arbitration settlement, jedn. 1753843, akta 105, sc.[226](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/1753843?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=226) (Łęczna notarial book), detailed from MyHeritage on this profile; parties are the widow Rayca Koplowiczowna, son Noech (Nowak), and daughter Zlata Dwoyra with her husband Icko Oszyowicz Leywi (Balter); arbitration decision dated 8 Nov 1807. ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* **Patronymic identity: "Ayzik / Eyzyk Aronowicz" (Eyzyk son of Aron).** He appears in the pre-surname Łęczna records as **Ayzik Aronowicz** — already established by his family's own deeds (the 1807 arbitration akta 105 names his widow Raca Koplowiczowna, son Noech/Nowak and daughter Zlata Dwoyra; the 1793/98 Hochberger deed places "the late Ayzik Aronowicz's brick house" opposite his in-laws' house). *Aronowicz = son of [[Aron (b.1720)]].* **New — earliest record, 1785 (Łęczna *Akta Miasta*).** An oblata entered **24 Aug 1785** registers the debt of the late **Paweł Sobestyan Mederski** for a **"Batavian horse" (koń batawski) taken on credit from the Starozakonny Ayzik Aronowicz for 240 złp** — since paid. This shows Eyzyk as a **horse-dealing creditor** in Łęczna in 1785, **eight years earlier than his previously-known records (1793)**. APL 35/44/0/1/29, jednostka 1753834, sc.[330](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/1753834?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=330). The same Mederski family clashed with the direct ancestor [[Rubin Edelsztajn (b.1744)]] ("Rubin Iłowicz," sc.329, 1782) — the two Jewish creditors appear back-to-back in this book. Extraction: [[Łęczna - 1768-1789 - Akta Miasta]]. ## Evidence ![[Eyzyk Blufogel - 1785 horse-debt oblata (Ayzik Aronowicz) jedn1753834 sc330.jpg]] *1785 (24 Aug) — oblata registering the late Paweł Sobestyan Mederski's 240-złp debt for a "Batavian horse" taken on credit from "the Starozakonny **Ayzik Aronowicz**" (= Eyzyk son of Aron = this man), since repaid. His earliest known Łęczna record. APL 35/44/0/1/29, jedn. 1753834, sc.[330](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/1753834?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=330).* ## Open questions - **Additional MyHeritage-bio scan leads (not yet read/incorporated; preserved 2026-07-06):** [death record (akta 15)](https://szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/skan/-/skan/a65129a75430f6eb7f44d8ddda08252457ea8ec6a4913c858621b5c00b6566f7)