ViewMate - Image Archive, Image 23758 - Translation - Yiddish - Hungary - Csontos/Kostrina - Singer

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Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 8/15/2012 4:14 PM
Family Surname: Singer
Country: Hungary
Town: Csontos/Kostrina
Date of Image: 1920s-1930s

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Any help in translating this would be appreciated. It is either Yiddush or Judaeo-German.

Response

8/10/2012 6:01 AM

I could only make out that someone named Sara is writing to her sister Perl and is also sending greetings to her brother Yasha and other -unnamed- members of the family.

Hope this helps somehow...

8/12/2012 9:39 AM

Hi David,

just had a look on it and tried a transliteration. Please tell me, if you still are in need of some more help with this letter?

bezres-hashem/ liebe thayere shvester shvoger kinder!
ayer liebes shrayben hobe erhalten mit frayde dos(?)
ihr xxten gezund bay mir oykh der fall liebe shvester Perl
entshuldge mir fir mayn langen shtilshvaygen nikht fir faltshkeyt
ikh xx xx falshkeyt dos fir mohl(?) tselt bay mir den vir
xxx yest layder keyn aynkinften blos vos unzere
xxx kinder Gott xxx fon den leben vir fon den xxx(hoyze?)
vir geboyt(?) yetst zint vir zehr elend gebliben gor keyn parnose
bloys fon den getseltn kreytser vos di kinder –leben zolen- shiken
eyne vi man zogt eyn lekherigen(?) zak kon man nikht onfilen lebt
man vi man kon ikh gerekhnt(?) liebe shvester du zolst nokh shrayben
und mir vos shiken yetst hoben vir nokh di matseyve nikht betsolt
xxerte zi gern shteynen oyf 3 yortseyt van vir Helen (?)
xx oystsuleben ikh hob fir mayne kinder oykh geshrieben
zi zollen shiken ikh shem mikh und traye(?) shoyn nikht zofiel
xxx nur biten vir kenen unz unzesverten(?) nikht helfen kon
basthehn(?) vir kxxirn hoben vir oykh fibalon(?) kroyt hoben
vir gekoyft ober dos iz alles nikht fir mikh ikh kon dos
nikht esen keyn buter keyn shmolk(?) nur bloyz koykis(?) dos xxx
mir tsum otm(?), 1(?) kihle eyn kalbl hoben vir abisl milkh kon
hoben frishtig van es vehre tsuker vehre shpiritiger(?)
ober dos kon man nikht nokhkomen bite antvort tsayg den
shvegerin tante Kheyn ekstra eyn heflikher grus fir
mayn bruder Yashe fon zayn shvester Kheyn

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