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Category: Translation - Hebrew
Approval Date: 9/9/2026 4:48 PM
Family Surname: Melul
Country: Israel
Town: Safed
Date of Image: 1839

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1839 Montefiore census of Safed, Sephardim kolel - widows & orphans sheet (Endowment scan 11720005). New colour photo from the Endowment. In the widows column, three consecutive cells read "אם חפצן", "אם יעקב מלול", "אם יוסף ערער". In the wide blank column to their left, level with the middle one, two words are written (panel B) - the only writing in that half of it. I now lean to a gloss rather than a later-added entry: the widows column has several empty ruled lines below its last entry, so anyone adding a widow had room inside it, and this sits level with a mid-column row, not at the foot. Could you please read the two words? And if it is a gloss of the form "אם [name]" - "also the mother of X" - is the second word a personal name? I get "אם" then an unread word closing with a final nun. "לא" I would reject: no lamed ascender (panel D). Panel C: three "אם" cells in the register hand. Yaakov Melul, 20, born Oran, is on another sheet here; this row is his widowed mother.

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Submitted by Gal Malul

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Submitted by Gal Malul