# Lejzor Fajn (b.1802) <!-- AUTO:BEGIN — generated from GEDCOM; do not edit, overwritten on rebuild --> > 🔵 **Bernstein — Ozzy's side** · Relationship to Ozzy: **spouse of 1st cousin 6x removed** **Born** ~1802 — [[Łęczna]] **Died** 03/15/1863 — [[Łęczna]] **Parents** [[Leybus Fajn]] · [[Liba]] **Spouses** [[Chawa Sura Rozengarten (b.1808)]] · Hinda Garfunkiel **Children** [[Liba Raca Fajn (b.1829)]] · Sura Fajn · Azryl Fajn · Lejbus Mejer Fajn · Chaja Fajn · Josef Fajn · Sylka Fajn · Moszek Fajn · Gdala Fajn *GEDCOM I517104 · Bernstein tree · synced 2026-07-01* <!-- AUTO:END --> ## Narrative **Lejzor Fajn** — recorded in the Łęczna town records as **Lejzor / Lejzer Fejn (Fein)** — was a Łęczna Jew, born there about 1802, son of [[Leybus Fajn]] and [[Liba]], who made part of his living in the early 1840s as a **lessee (*dzierżawca*) of the town's revenues** — one of the several Jewish tax-farmers who bid at the municipal auctions for the right to collect [[Łęczna]]'s excise and cash-office incomes.[^liq] In 1840 he held the lease of the **revenues of the Łęczna town cash-office (*Dochody Kassy miasta Łęczny*)**: as security he had deposited a *vadium* of **45 rubles silver** into the Bank Polski (receipt of 2 July / 8 August 1840), a sum which the provincial government (*Rząd Gubernialny Lubelski*) later found had been wrongly booked among the town cash remainders, and which was still the subject of recovery correspondence in 1844.[^kassa] The following winter he competed for the town's **yeast (*drożdże*) income**. When that lease was put up by private *licytacja*, three Jewish bidders each posted a 50-złoty *vadium* — Chaim Weinberg, **Lejzor Fein** and Szapsa Weinfeld — and Fein prevailed; the protocol of **4 February 1841** records that *"przy Licytacyi utrzymał się P. Lejzer Fejn za summę złotych dwieście sześćdziesiąt"* (Lejzer Fejn held the lease for the sum of 260 złotych), and he set his own name to it, signing **"Lejzer Fejn"** in Latin letters and again in Hebrew.[^auction] Having taken the lease, he then made it over — ceding his rights to the following 24 June to Moszek Weintraub, who undertook the annual rent to the manor to February 1842 — an arrangement that Chaim Weinberg, feeling himself passed over, afterwards contested.[^yeast] These are the ordinary workings of a small-town tax-farmer: bidding, posting security, holding and re-letting the petty monopolies on which the manor and municipality raised their revenue. He married [[Chawa Sura Rozengarten (b.1808)]], and later Hinda Garfunkiel, and had a large family — among them [[Liba Raca Fajn (b.1829)]]. He died in Łęczna on **15 March 1863**; three years later the town's 1866 liquidation table still carried his household plot (No. 323) under the heading *"Нас. Лейзора Файнъ"* — **the heirs of Lejzor Fajn**.[^liq] [^liq]: Łęczna liquidation table, APL *Zbiór tabel likwidacyjnych*, jedn. 2766805, household No. 323 (Jewish town-residents section), listed *"Нас. Лейзора Файнъ"* (heirs of Lejzor Fajn), scan [22](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/2766805?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=22) (read 2026-07-02). Fits his death at Łęczna, 15 Mar 1863. [^kassa]: *Miasto Łęczna* administrative file vol. VIII, AGAD 1/191/0/-/3648, jedn. 17742785, sc.[13](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/17742785?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=13): *"opłacone vadium przez Lejzora Fejn dzierżawcę Dochodów Kassy miasta Łęczny w kwocie r.s. 45"* — deposited into Bank Polski per receipt 2 July / 8 Aug 1840 No. 11559; correspondence over its return dated 25 Sept / 7 Oct 1844. [^auction]: Same file, sc.[121](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/17742785?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=121)–[122](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/17742785?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=122): auction protocol, Łęczna 4 Feb 1841; winning bid 260 złp over Szapsa (255) and Chaim (252); signed "Lejzer Fejn" (Latin + Hebrew). [^yeast]: Same file, sc.[108](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/17742785?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=108): the private *licytacja* of the Łęczna *drożdże* (yeast) income — bidders Chaim Weinberg, Lejzor Fein and Szapsa Weinfeld each posting a 50-złp *vadium*; *"przy dzierżawie utrzymał się Lejzor Fein,"* who then ceded his rights (to 24 June) to Moszek Weintraub, contracting to 4 Feb 1842; Chaim Weinberg disputed being bypassed. ## Research *(your reasoning — preserved across every rebuild)* **Recorded spellings of the surname:** *Fajn* (vault/GEDCOM), **Fejn / Fein** (Łęczna *Akta Miasta* & the *Miasto Łęczna* admin file, 1840–41), *Файнъ* (Cyrillic, 1866 liquidation table). Given name recorded *Lejzor / Lejzer*. **Łęczna town-revenue tax-farmer, 1840–1841 — *Miasto Łęczna* vol. VIII (AGAD 1/191/0/-/3648, jedn. 17742785), deep-read from the scans 2026-07-06.** Identity: given name *Lejzor/Lejzer* + surname *Fejn/Fein* (= Fajn) + Łęczna + era (b.1802 → ~38–39 in 1840–41); the only Lejzor Fajn the vault ties to Łęczna in this generation (d. Łęczna 1863, heirs on the 1866 table). **Confirmed match.** - **1840** — **lessee (*dzierżawca*) of the *Dochody Kassy miasta Łęczny*** (revenues of the town cash-office); posted a *vadium* of **45 rubli srebrem** into Bank Polski (2 July / 8 Aug 1840, No. 11559), later the subject of a mis-booking / recovery matter (1844). sc.[13](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/17742785?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=13). - **4 Feb 1841** — won the auction for a Łęczna income (the *drożdże*/yeast lease) for **260 złp**, over bidders Szapsa Weinfeld (255) and Chaim Weinberg (252); **signed "Lejzer Fejn"** in Latin + Hebrew. sc.[121](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/17742785?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=121)–[122](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/17742785?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=122). - **1841** — the *drożdże* (yeast) income *licytacja*: bidders **Chaim Weinberg, Lejzor Fein, Szapsa Weinfeld** each posting 50 złp *vadium*; **Lejzor Fein held the lease**, then ceded his rights (to 24 June) to **Moszek Weintraub** (contract to 4 Feb 1842); Chaim Weinberg contested being passed over. sc.[108](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/17742785?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=108). *(An earlier reader index read the bidder here as "Lypa Fein"; the scan reads **Lejzor Fein** — "Lypa" belonged to a different man, Lypa Fridman, partner of Handelsman & Perelman.)* ## Evidence ![[Lejzor Fajn - 1840 Leczna Kassa lessee vadium (Lejzor Fejn) jedn17742785 sc13.jpg]] *1840 — Lejzor Fejn as **lessee of the Łęczna town cash-office revenues**, his 45-rubel-silver *vadium* in Bank Polski the subject of recovery correspondence. *Miasto Łęczna* vol. VIII, AGAD 1/191/0/-/3648, jedn. 17742785, sc.[13](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/17742785?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=13).* ![[Lejzor Fajn - 1841 Leczna yeast-lease bidder-winner (Lejzor Fein) jedn17742785 sc108.jpg]] *1841 — the Łęczna *drożdże* (yeast) income *licytacja*: **"przy dzierżawie utrzymał się Lejzor Fein"** (bidders Weinberg, Fein, Weinfeld, 50 złp *vadium* each); Fein then ceded his rights to Moszek Weintraub. jedn. 17742785, sc.[108](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/17742785?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=108).* ![[Lejzor Fajn - 1841 Leczna income-lease auction win + signature (Lejzer Fejn) jedn17742785 sc122.jpg]] *4 Feb 1841 — auction protocol: **"przy Licytacyi utrzymał się P. Lejzer Fejn za summę złotych dwieście sześćdziesiąt"** (260 złp), with his own signature **"Lejzer Fejn"** (Latin + Hebrew). jedn. 17742785, sc.[122](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/17742785?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=122).* - **Łęczna liquidation table** (APL, *Zbiór tabel likwidacyjnych*, jednostka 2766805; read 2026-07-02). Household **№323** in the Jewish town-residents section (Часть III) listed as **"Нас. Лейзора Файнъ" = heirs of Lejzor Fajn**. Fits his death in Łęczna (15 Mar 1863) — his heirs held the plot at the 1866 table. Scan: [household 323 (scan 22)](https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/2766805?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=22). ![[Leczna-liq-1866_Fajn-Lejzor-heirs_hh323.jpg]] *Łęczna liquidation table (scan 22), hh 323: **Нас. Лейзора Файнъ** — heirs of Lejzor Fajn.* ## Open questions - **Mother — Liba or Cypra?** His death record names his parents as **Lejbus and Liba** (carried in the narrative), but per the family MyHeritage note he *may* instead be a son of **Lejbus and [[Cypra Fajn]]** — an alternative parentage to test against their profiles. Unresolved.