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Submitted by Maor Brodski

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Category: Translation - Yiddish Approval Date: 6/22/2025 1:53 PM Family Surname: Levin Country: Lithuania Town: Vilnius	Click the picture to enlarge	Attached is the first of four pages of a letter sent, I believe, to my second great grandfather Shmuel Yankel (Yonah) Levin, who immigrated to the Caucasus, and later on to the Land of Israel. Will appreciate your assistance in its translation. Thank you.

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6/23/2025 3:08 AM

Much happiness and fortune to my dear brother Shmuel Yonah, may you live and be healthy. Firstly, I can tell you of my health. May God grant that we don't hear worse from you.
My dear brother, when I heard your Zusha(?) saying(?) that you are alive thank God I had a great celebration. I rejoiced, my husband and my children the same.
My dear brother, write to me how your health is and how your wife is doing, may she be healthy, and how your children are doing.
Your wrote to me that your daughter has a good husband thank God; it gladdens me as if she were my own child.
Now my dear brother, write to me how your son Dovid is doing; why didn't you write anything about him to me? And why didn't you write to me [end of page]

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