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Category: Translation - German
Approval Date: 6/29/2025 1:53 PM
Family Surname:

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This is a letter written by the relative of a cousin.

I would greatly appreciate a translation.

I apologize for the poor quality of the scan. I realize that this letter is a challenge, particularly the crowded upper part of the page. Whatever you can decipher would be greatly appreciated.

There may be a few sprinklings of Hebrew. If you do not read Hebrew, please just ignore those.

Thank you in advance.

Response

7/2/2025 5:07 PM

Bratislava 14. Sept. 1940
Dearest Julia [...],
today I write to you my heart overflowing. Just imagine, I got engaged! Not funny [i.e., no joke]. First I will give a description of my חתן. [Illegible] is no great chasid, but he is a very great talmid-chacham, and he also has [illegible]. It all went were fast. We only talked three times, and after that we had our engagement yesterday. It was really beautiful. We were 70 men and 30 women, just like at a wedding. He has a red beard, but [illegible]. He can still grow it [longer]. Julia, I can't believe myself that I made up my mind so quickly, but this came straight from Heaven. So without doing anything, it was destined by "ה. It's a pity you weren't here, so it would have been easier for me after all. When can people say [] Mazel tov, without wanting to be indiscreet/unseemly. My חתן has a disadvantage, that is he is 30 years old, and Hungarian citizen. On this point we can't tell. In [place name?] he has a position as a מלמד [?]. I hope he will come [illegible], if my father agrees [...]. Then we will choose the שמלה. Once you wrote that in a שידוך, emotion must not be missing, and now I see how right you are. I hope it will be for מזל. He also has a rabbinical affidavit [text ends here, continues on next page?]

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