ViewMate 4600 - I *thought* it might be Hebrew #general
Irene Newhouse <einew@...>
I have posted ViewMate 4600; go to
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html to view. It's the inscription in a book my late grandfather, Alfred Schueler, owned. He was old enough in 1909 to have been the original recipient of the book, in which case the dedication would have been to him. I originally thought it must be Hebrew, but even before I've found the time to post, an alert Jewishgenner has let me know it's not. My grandfather also knew Greek & Latin in addition to his native German. It's not any German script I recognize & I can read the gotisch/Suetterlin script. My grandfather did *not* know Yiddish. It is also possible that he inherited the book >from his uncle, Rabbi Dr. Marcus Brann, in which case the scope for a dead language becomes wider, Dr. Brann having been professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau/Wroclaw, or >from his brother-in-law, Rabbi Dr. Georg Wilde, whose language proficiency was most likely between that of my grandfather & Dr. Brann. OR he could have obtained it used, in which case the sky's pretty much the limit. I'd be grateful to have this little mystery unravelled! Thanks!! Irene Newhouse Kihei HI 96753 MODERATOR NOTE: The direct URL of the image is http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=4600 |
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