[PW] Re: Help with deciphering Yiddish letter

[Winters, Murl]

While I will be of no help translating the letter, I have just finished
reading, Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man who Rescued
A Million Yiddish Books, by Aaron Lansky. He is the director of what has
become the Yiddish Book Center http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/+10176. 
While I expect help to be forthcoming on the Project-Wombat list, if you
have an interest in Yiddish, the Yiddish Book Center
http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/ is a good place to begin.
Murl Winters
Assistant Library Director
Evangel University

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Sylvia Milne
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 3:21 AM
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Subject: [PW] Help with deciphering Yiddish letter

I'm sending this on behalf of a w0mbat who is having difficulties 
subscribing and posting.

Greetings!

  I'm a former Womb*t who had to leave the list shortly before its
reincarnation, due to major spam problems.  I'm back, on a  personal
account, and my first question is for myself (and my mother).

  I have a letter from 1948, hand-written in Yiddish to my
great-grandfather from his half-brother in Argentina.  My older
relatives 
who
speak Yiddish cannot read it (at least, not in script)

  The letter is fairly short.  A scanned image of it is online at:
  http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=8158
 <http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=8158>
  It probably contains no earth-shaking family secrets, but my mom and
I would both be very grateful if someone could unlock the meaning.

  Robin Carroll-Mann
  Head of Adult Services,
  Summit Free Public Library, Summit, NJ 07901
  brighidnichiarain at yahoo.com

Sylvia Milne

Please visit me at
http://www.sylviamilne.btinternet.co.uk/plucked/ 

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