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Submitted by Marc M Cohen

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 3/20/2011 5:14 PM
Family Surname: Rosenberg, Bercovici, or Schlaicher?
Country: Romania
Town: Iase
Date of Image: before 1900
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I hope that if someone can read and translate the Yiddish inscription on the back of this photo, it will tell us who this couple is and when the picture was taken. The likely surnames include Rosenberg, Bercovici, Schlaicher, Schwartz, or possibly Aaronsohn.

The brothers Itzaak and Avram Rosenberg immigrated from Tirgu Frumos, Romania to London, UK before 1900. It is not clear to whether they were married in Romania and came to London with their wives, The ran a furniture shop together in the East End. Their two younger sisters, Hannah and Brahnia (Beckie) came to London about 1904. Hannah married Aaron Schwartz who worked in the store, and they came to New York about a year later. In 1906, Brahnia followed them to NYC.

My guess is that this photo was taken of Avram Rosenberg and Rachel Winners OR Itzaak Rosenberg and Esther Malka Cohen as a wedding photo in Jassy before going to England. Any and all help will be most appreciated.

Marc M. Cohen

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3/21/2011 10:57 AM As soon as one zooms in one loses focus.
Perhaps you could increase the resolution to enable us to read what is written in Yiddish all around the postcard.

The French says that this is an artisitc photographer in "Parisian" style, that keeps all negatives, and that he also does reproductions, bow-ups, and paintings in oils and watercolors.
His name is M. Margulies and he is established in Iassy, Romania.
But you probably knew all that already...

Ite
10/28/2012 2:56 PM I cannot read and translate the Yiddish. However, the photograph was taken in my grandfather's studio. But I might be able to help a bit with time frame. My grandfather and family worked in Paris in late 1880. One of their children was born in Paris in 1888. I don't know year they returned to Jassy, but I have seen on line a photo from grandfather's studio dated 1892. Also my father was born 1894. The family left Romania permanently in 1909. Maurice Margulies. mmmargul@verizon.net

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