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Question

Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 7/9/2025 1:37 PM
Family Surname: Tartakovsky/Langer
Country: Ukraine
Town: Zhitomir

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Photo is an infant of couple from previous upload. Name unknown. Sent to Rebecca Langer. Granddaughter from previous marriage.

Response

7/9/2025 2:59 PM

This is actually Hebrew, not Yiddish.

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As an eternal memento I send to you, dear children [?], the photo of my daughter, the girl whose name is Iteh Katz [?]

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The word that I am translating as "children" is the smudged word on the second line, so I am not absolutely sure of my reading.

The name that I have written as Iteh would be pronounced EE-teh.

Her name is followed by by a word/name that begins with Ka. The last letter could be tz or f.

7/9/2025 11:43 PM

This is written in

A reminder forever I'm sending
you my dear parents
the picture of my daughter the child named Itteh Kof.

[Comment]
Written in *Hebrew*, by a person to whom it was a non-native language.

The text I translated as "named" can also be translated as "in her name". People often sent pictures of children "in their name", even when they were infants.

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