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115106 Translation - Hebrew

8/9/2026 5:51 PM Hebrew or Yiddish of 4 women View the post with its 2 responses
115099 Translation - Yiddish

8/9/2026 5:50 PM This text was on the back of a postcard with picture of my grandmother, Miriam (Marjem)Zeldman (Seldmann) Blank (Elblink) on the front. She emigrated from Kamenets Podolsky in Moldova (Russia) on the SS Rotterdam, arriving in the US around 1898 at age 24 and settling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I am requesting a translation of the postcard text to English. The handwriting appears to be Cyrillic. I don't know if it is Yiddish or Russian. Thank you for your help. View the post, there are no responses
115100 Translation - Polish

8/9/2026 5:50 PM This is a succession protocol regarding a deceased named Joskowicz Szydlowski and it seems her grandmother Sara appeared that was the daughter of the Rabbi Yosef Szydlowski View the post, there are no responses
115101 Translation - German

8/9/2026 5:50 PM Attached is the Lodz-ghetto ID registration card of my second great-aunt Chawa Dzialoszynska (nee Rzetelna), the daughter of Chaim Zyskind Rzetelny and Gołda Chaja Brzytwa, the wife of Jakób Dawid Dziaĺoszyński, and the sister of Hena Gitla Zysman, Ruchla Rzetelna, Ita Łaja Brocka, Jacob Rzetelny, and Sima Rzetelna. I would appreciate your assistance in the translation of the document. Thank you. View the post with its 1 response
115102 Translation - German

8/9/2026 5:50 PM Attached is the Lodz-ghetto ID registration card of Genendel Zysman, the daughter of Gerszon Hejnoch Zysman and Hena Gitla Zysman, born November 13, 1924. I would appreciate your assistance in the translation of the document. Thank you. View the post with its 2 responses
115103 Translation - Polish

8/9/2026 5:50 PM Attached is the Lodz-ghetto ID registration card of Noech Berlinski, born in Lodz October 6, 1913, the son of Hersz and Hendel Ruchla Berliński and the brother of Nacha Berliński; Jakób Lejb Berliński; Mordka (Motel) Avram Berliński; and Izrael Aron Berliński. I would appreciate your assistance in the translation of the document. Thank you. View the post with its 1 response
115097 Translation - Russian

8/9/2026 5:49 PM Baila Gruber, died 1870, Hrubieszow.

I am seeking the names of her parents or husband as well as her age. Thank you in advance. 		View the post with its 1 response
115098 Translation - Polish

8/9/2026 5:49 PM It seems to be a contract regarding a house in Szydlow View the post with its 1 response
115095 Translation - Polish

8/9/2026 5:49 PM Attached is, supposedly, the Lodz-ghetto ID registration card of Jakób Lejb Berliński, my first cousin twice removed, as portrayed on Ancestry; however, the photograph seems to be that of a woman. I would appreciate your assistance in translation, to clarify the nature of the document. Thank you. View the post with its 1 response
115084 Translation - Polish

8/9/2026 5:47 PM Death registration for Gita INDYK.

I would really appreciate a full transcription of all genealogical data. I can see that Gita was a widow. Does it say who her husband was? I cannot read her parents' names if they are given but see that there are names in addition to the informants/witnesses. I cannot decipher date of death.

Grateful for any assistance

Robyn 		View the post with its 1 response
115086 Translation - Yiddish

8/9/2026 5:47 PM This is the verso of a photograph of a male who had some association with my mother's family. I would very much appreciate a translation. Hoping that the identity of the person is mentioned. Thanks in advance! View the post with its 2 responses
115038 Translation - Yiddish

8/9/2026 5:46 PM This may be page 2 of the initial letter I posted, but I'm not sure. It does state "1944" on it. Thank you very much! View the post, there are no responses
115079 Translation - Hebrew

8/5/2026 4:15 PM Handwritten letter in Hebrew (Sephardi semi-cursive), sent from Egypt to the rabbinical court of Safed. From the Safed Jewish Community collection at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People: CAHJP IL-Sa-563, shelfmark Sfat 7-112. Catalogued as 1925. It opens by naming the three dayanim of Safed: Ishmael Cohen, Yeshua Waish and Yeshua Palagi, and is catalogued as concerning a widow. As far as I can read, it pleads repeatedly that they act "lifnim mishurat hadin" in a matter of a sheluhut (emissary mission), and asks mercy for the man's righteous wife. A full transcription and translation would be very welcome. Especially: 1. Who wrote and signed the letter? 2. Who is the man whose case is pleaded, and who is the widow? 3. Does the surname MALUL / MELLOUL / MALLOUL appear anywhere? I research Rabbi Moshe Haim Malul, rabbi of Tanta in Egypt, who died in either 1925 or 1928, and whose wife came from the Palagi family of Safed. Thank you very much. View the post with its 2 responses
115080 Translation - Hebrew

8/5/2026 4:15 PM Handwritten letter in Hebrew sent from Egypt to the rabbis of Safed, 1923, with the embossed seal of LE GRAND RABBINAT D'ALEXANDRIE ET SES DEPENDANCES at the foot of the page. From the Safed Jewish Community collection at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People: CAHJP IL-Sa-459, shelfmark Sfat 7-6 (NLI record 997013405645205171). It is addressed to the dayanim of Safed, among them Rabbi Yeshua Palagi. A full transcription and translation would be very welcome. Especially: 1. Who wrote and signed it, and in what capacity within the Alexandria rabbinate? 2. What matter does it deal with? 3. Does the surname MALUL / MELLOUL / MALLOUL appear, or any reference to the rabbi of Tanta? I research Rabbi Moshe Haim Malul, who served as rabbi of Tanta in Egypt in exactly these years and later as a dayan in Cairo. Thank you very much. View the post with its 1 response
115081 Translation - Hebrew

8/5/2026 4:15 PM The two witness signatures at the foot of an illuminated ketubah written in SAFED, 13 Adar 5642 = 1882. National Library of Israel record 990003034930205171 (original: Zucker Family collection, New York). This image is the lower band of the document, enlarged. The NLI catalogue records the parties as: groom Shimon ben Yaakov Levi; bride Roza bat Avraham Wolf Ashkenazi; witness David ben Shalom Malka; witness "[Moshe] Haim Malul" - with "Moshe" in square brackets, i.e. supplied by the cataloguer. Both signatures are dense Sephardi monogram flourishes and I cannot read either. I would be very grateful if someone could: 1. Transcribe both signatures. 2. Say which of the two is the Malul signature, and whether the given name written is Haim alone or Moshe Haim. I research Rabbi Moshe Haim Malul, born in Safed, later rabbi of Tanta in Egypt. This is the earliest trace of him I have found and the only example of his hand. Thank you very much. View the post with its 1 response
115082 Translation - Hungarian

8/5/2026 4:15 PM Hi please fully translate Record # 129.
Thanks 		View the post with its 1 response
115083 Translation - Hungarian

8/5/2026 4:15 PM Hi please fully translate Family #45.
Thanks 		View the post with its 1 response
115077 Translation - German

8/5/2026 4:14 PM Hi! Could you please transcribe or translate this for me? Thanks! All the best View the post with its 1 response
115078 Translation - Hebrew

8/5/2026 4:14 PM Handwritten letter in Sephardi cursive, on the printed letterhead of the Committee of Rabbis of the Sephardi Community of Safed (Vaad Rabbanei Adat HaSephardim be-Ir HaKodesh Tzfat / Comite des Rabbins de la Communaute Sefaradim a Safed, Palestine). It comes from the archive of Moshe David Gaon at the National Library of Israel, from his file on Rabbi Yeshua (Moshe Yeshua) Palagi of Safed, ARC. 4* 795 05 1057. I would be very grateful for a full transcription and translation. Three points especially: 1. The date line at top right. I read the day as 12 or 13 of Shevat, but I cannot decide the year: does it read Tav-Resh-Peh-Tet (1929) or Tav-Resh-Tsadi-Tet (1939)? 2. The addressee line - to whom is the letter written? 3. The signature at the end. Can it be read? I am trying to establish whether this is the hand and signature of Rabbi Yeshua Palagi himself. Thank you very much. View the post with its 3 responses
115072 Interpretation

8/5/2026 4:14 PM Name of Child. is it Sam Kellman or Saul Kelman View the post with its 2 responses
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