# Judko Blufogel (b.1820) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **1st cousin 5x removed · also 2nd cousin 5x removed *(2 ancestral lines)*** **Born** 1820 — [[Łęczna]] **Parents** [[Ajzyk Blufogel (b.1795)]] · [[Estera Barbanel (b.1797)]] **Spouse** [[Ita Gerecht (b.1824)]] **Children** [[Fayga Raca Blufogel (b.1846)]] · [[Ajzyk Blufogel (b.1849)]] · [[Matla Blufogel (b.1854)]] · [[Noech Blufogel (b.1861)]] **Siblings** [[Jankiel Blufogel (b.1820)]] · [[Pejsach Berek Blufogel (b.1822)]] · [[Ayzyk Blufogel (b.1829)]] ### How you're related — 2 distinct paths *These are genuinely separate bloodlines (the family intermarried), not the same line counted twice.* - **1st cousin 5x removed** — [[Judko Blufogel (b.1820)]] → [[Estera Barbanel (b.1797)]] → [[Josef Barbanel (b.1773)]] → [[Nusyn Barbanel (b.1798)]] → [[Chaim Barbanel (b.1840)]] → [[Dawid Barbanel (b.1879)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Barbanel (b.1907)]] → [[Yisrael Tzvi Barbanel (b.1934)]] → [[Gila Barbanel (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] - **2nd cousin 5x removed** — [[Judko Blufogel (b.1820)]] → [[Ajzyk Blufogel (b.1795)]] → [[Nowak Blufogel (b.1769)]] → [[Eyzyk Blufogel (b.1745)]] → [[Zlota Dwojra Blufogel (b.1779)]] → [[Szol Balter (b.1800)]] → [[Srul Balter (b.1845)]] → [[Szol Aron Balter (b.1874)]] → [[Gittel Balter (b.1911)]] → [[Sara Hamerman (b.1943)]] → [[Gila Barbanel (b.1977)]] → [[Azriel Yosef Bernstein (b.2000)]] *GEDCOM I517156 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative Judko Blufogel was born in 1820 in [[Łęczna]], a town in the Lublin region of Congress Poland with a large and long-established Jewish community. He was a son of [[Ajzyk Blufogel (b.1795)]] and [[Estera Barbanel (b.1797)]], and grew up among several brothers — [[Jankiel Blufogel (b.1820)]], [[Pejsach Berek Blufogel (b.1822)]], and [[Ayzyk Blufogel (b.1829)]]. He married [[Ita Gerecht (b.1824)]]; an index entry for their marriage record (akta 18) survives in the Łęczna vital-records series. The couple had at least four children recorded in the vault: [[Fayga Raca Blufogel (b.1846)]], [[Ajzyk Blufogel (b.1849)]] — carrying his paternal grandfather's name in the customary Ashkenazi pattern — [[Matla Blufogel (b.1854)]], and [[Noech Blufogel (b.1861)]]. The spread of birth years suggests a marriage established by the mid-1840s and a household that continued into at least the early 1860s. One documentary trace places Judko in the wider conscription history of the era. His name appears (pg 19) in a Lublin Governorate list of Jewish conscripts who failed to present themselves before the military medical "super-revision" (re-examination) of 1848. Under Russian rule, Jewish communities were subject to onerous recruitment quotas, and men who did not appear for examination were recorded as having fled or absconded; such lists were an instrument of the Tsarist draft apparatus rather than a personal record, and Judko's presence on it reflects that broad pressure on the community as much as any individual circumstance. The exact list entry has not yet been transcribed from the digitized page [?] (see Open questions). Within the family tree, Judko connects to the compiler through two distinct blood lines — via his mother [[Estera Barbanel (b.1797)]] on the Barbanel side and via his father's Blufogel line, which later intermarried with the Balter family — reflecting the tightly interwoven descent typical of the Łęczna Jewish community. ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* ## Evidence ## Open questions - **Marriage record (akta 18) — needs browser pass.** The JRI-Poland index link redirects to szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl (unit [2191374](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/2191374?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=37), Łęczna vital records, scan 37), which renders only via JavaScript and could not be read here. Confirm the exact marriage date, act text, parents' names, and Ita Gerecht's parentage from the scan. Original index link: https://legacy.jri-poland.org/databases/psa_image2.php?urldir=35/1758/0/2/21&jpgpage=37 - **1848 conscript-flight list — needs browser pass.** The [crispa.uw.edu.pl scan](https://crispa.uw.edu.pl/object/files/615985/display/JPEG) (pg 19), a Lublin Governorate list of Jewish conscripts who fled before the 1848 military super-revision, returned only a JS viewer shell. Transcribe Judko's exact line entry (age, community, any notes) once viewable.