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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2025-02-28 12:51 pm

ISO judaica experts

I have one (or possibly two) letters written to (or very possibly by) my great-grandmother, who left Bialystok in 1920. The language is either Hebrew or Yiddish, neither of which I would really understand even if I could transliterate the words.

Do I know anyone who can read and translate 100yo handwritten Hebrew script if I scan it to you?

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[personal profile] meara 2025-02-28 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually might, I’ll ask her
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[personal profile] meara 2025-03-01 12:30 pm (UTC)(link)
My friend suggested this “ If it's just a few pages, they can post them in the Facebook group Tracing The Tribe -- there are a lot of people there who can read Yiddish and will translate short things like letters. (It's best not to post those on a Friday night or Saturday -- most of the Yiddish-speakers observe Shabbat, and things posted then will get buried in new posts by the time they're back online on Sunday.)”