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Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 10/7/2026 5:17 PM
Family Surname: SOLGANIK, LEHNER
Country: Romania
Town: Iasi (Jassy); addressed to Rezina, Bessarabia
Date of Image: 1 December 1925

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Back of a studio photo postcard (Foto Select, str. Apeduc 45, Iasi), dated 1/12/1925, showing a young man playing the violin. The handwriting is in Yiddish. I would be grateful for a full transcription and translation of both sides of the card.

Left side: the dedication and the signature. I think it begins 'tsum eybikn ondenk...' and the signature may include the name LEHNER, but I am not sure.
Right side: the address. I think it reads 'Herrn ... Shmelke(?) ... Rezina', but I am not sure.

Background: my great-grandfather Shmil (Shmuel) SOLGANIK lived in Rezina, Bessarabia, in the 1920s. Another postcard from the same studio (25 October 1926) was sent to him 'from your nephews' Frima, Boris, Volf and Hana LEHNER(?). I would like to know who wrote this card and how he was related to Shmuel.

Thank you very much!

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10/13/2026 12:07 PM

To Mr. Meir and Mrs. Yehudis Spreber
Rezina

In memory
From your grandchild
Zev Lehnir(?)
1 December 1925, Jassy

ערען מאיר - ויהודית
שפרעביר
רעזינא

צִום - אײַנדיֵינק
פון - אײַערע היֵיניקל
‮זאב - לעהניר(?)
יאססי

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Translator's note: Zev is the Hebrew equivalent of Volf.

10/13/2026 2:31 PM

A follow-up question about the surname in the address (שפרעביר, read as "Spreber"):

Could the second-to-last letter be a kaf (כ) rather than a beys (ב), i.e. שפרעכער = SHPREKHER / SPRECHER? I ask because there was a Leizer SPREKHER, son of Meir, in Rezina (Duma voters list 1906, Orgeyev uyezd; fabric store in Rezina, 1924; Tashkent evacuation card file 1942: Leyzer Shprokher, b. 1877, father Meyer, Rezina). "Spreber" does not appear in any database I checked.

I would be grateful if you could take another look at that word. Thank you again for the translation!

Igal

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