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Category: Translation - Yiddish
Approval Date: 10/24/2021 11:51 AM
Family Surname: Flatow, Levitan
Country: Israel
Town: Haifa
Date of Image: 1935

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This is the 2nd page of a letter written by great-grandmother, Ida Flatow to a cousin of hers, Rukhl Leah Levitan (Flatow) who she recently regained contact with after meeting with her in Haifa. This 2nd page is also my great-grandmothers response to a letter written by her cousins. Before the first page ended she was talking about how her aunt Bayla was. I will greatly appreciate anyone who can translate this for me. Thank you in ahead of time.

Response

10/26/2021 12:23 AM

Rifke died, of course tears poured from eyes because each time our family becomes smaller and especially [I think she's writing a Hebrew word phonetically here] such a wise woman as was the aunt [that's like "Auntie" in English]. I still remember, in my youth. Yes that's it, death comes. Now, how's your sister doing. Yes I went through tough times recently, my son who stands photographed with all of us became ill [the classic Yiddish expression: "got ill on me"] and the eldest son isn't working now. It's not that [good] now in Palestine, dear cousin, I certainly wouldn't have written you. But, since God wanted that we will meet [see one another] and I'm now a tight situation I couldn't accomodate [invite you to stay] at my place because my home is no home and my situation with my husband is also, sort of, known and all the children are with me [i.e. at my place] because of all that, I'm begging you and begging Sarah and anyone from my own [? possibly meaning "from our family"] that you could help me somehow and hope that I will not ask more of you because now nobody has any work and we have no apartment [once again, this looks like a the Hebrew word spelled phonetically]. So, dear cousin, whose face stands in from of my eyes ------- [in details?] that I ask you

Comments:
She's addressing her cousin the respectful plural.
In Yiddish, the "asking for" and "begging for" are the same word.

10/26/2021 4:19 PM

The letter is not finished... it looks like the writer is saying,
So my dear cousin whose face stands before my eyes and feel that I speak to...

There must be another page?

10/27/2021 11:11 PM

First translator here:
Yes, of course. I meant to write "in front of my eyes" not "from".
Glad the second responder caught it.

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