Beryl Brouda (1829 - 1874)

Beryl Broude is the father of Annie Isabella Broude, the 2nd wife of Aaron Levin, my maternal 2x great grandfather. Broude family HERE

Parents: Itski Brouda (circa 1800 - 1850) and Shayna

Born: 1829, probably in Roshki, a village near Svislach in the Grodno district, Russian Empire, now Roski Sialiec in Belarus

Hebrew name: Dov

Yiddish name: Berko

1850 Revision list of males showing Beryl (Berko) age 21 and his brothers Elia age 33, Volf age 28, Lesher / Gesher age 19 and Itska age 5. They are residing in Svisloch.

Married

Cyrl (probably Malka in Hebrew) in the Svislach district sometime before 1852

Children

• Isaac Broude 1852 - 1919
• Annie Isabell Broude 1856 - 1939
• Samuel Broude 1858 - 1936

Occupation: Farmer

Death

Some time before 1874, probably aged in his early 50s, in the Svislach area, Grodno district, Russian Empire

Place of Birth

Beryl Broude was born in the Svislach district in the Grodno province of Belarus

SVISLOCH (Pol. Swisłocz ), town in Grodno district, Belarus; within Poland before 1795 and between the two world wars. A number of Jews settled there at the beginning of the 18th century on the invitation of the owners of the locality, the princes of Tyszkiewicz. In 1752 the Council of Lithuania imposed a poll tax of 215 zlotys on the Svisloch community, which numbered 220 in 1766. Until the middle of the 19th century the Jews of Svisloch earned their livelihood mainly from trade in timber and grain, shopkeeping, and crafts; they later also engaged in innkeeping and the lease of public houses. After a great fire, in which most of the Jewish shops were destroyed, the fairs were no longer held in Svisloch and the Jews were deprived of their principal sources of livelihood. Around 1870 Jews began to pioneer in the tanning industry and improved methods of manufacture with the assistance of German experts whom they invited. By the end of the 19th century a number of tanneries had been established in Svisloch, which employed hundreds of workers. Many Jews from the surrounding areas went there in search of employment. As early as the middle of the 19th century Jewish craftsmen in Svisloch attempted to organize themselves into guilds. At the beginning of the 20th century the Bund Movement developed in Svisloch and it embraced the whole of the Jewish working populace (tanners, tailors, shoemakers, carpenters. smiths, and bakers), who organized strikes for the amelioration of working conditions in tanneries and factories. In 1905 the workers' organization was established for Jewish self-defense against pogroms