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Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 6/7/2026 4:46 PM
Family Surname: Levin, Riskin, Grandic
Country: Poland
Town: Wilno
Date of Image: 1932 (?)

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Attached are 2+3/4 pages of a letter by Chaye Schayne Grandic (nee Levin), the sister of my 2nd great-grandfather Shmul Yankel Levin. Chaye lived in Wilno, Poland. The letter is officially addressed to Dr. Abraham Riskin, my great-grandfather and Shmul's son-in-law, in Haifa, although It seems to have been addressed to Shmul himself.

The dear ViewMate volunteers had once translated another letter by Chaye Schayne:
https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/memberadmin/responselist.asp?showmaster=1&viewmateid=111215
https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/memberadmin/responselist.asp?showmaster=1&viewmateid=111234
https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/memberadmin/responselist.asp?showmaster=1&viewmateid=111419
https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/memberadmin/responselist.asp?showmaster=1&viewmateid=111495

Shmul immigrated from Wilno to the Caucaus circa 1895 and later to Palestine, and we know nearly nothing of the extended Levin family. These letters may be their last remnant.

Thank you.

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Submitted by Maor Brodski

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ViewMate Posting VM 114152

Submitted by Maor Brodski