I am looking for the entry on the town of Rozhanka in Pinkas Hakehilot, Poland Vol. 8, pp. 592-595. If anyone has access to this volume and would be so gracious as to make copies of these pages, I wou

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Just realized that the "2" at the end of both dates is really an "r," which stands for года" ("of the year" in Russian). So the first one is [19]69, and the second is [19]71. Yehuda Altein Brooklyn, N

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Below are two unusual dates, from letters written in Kiev c. 1960-70. July 27, 692 October 30, 712 Any idea what the years might be? Here is a third date from the same writer, which is written in the

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Maybe it's the same Chaim...? (Another boy exactly a year later!) Yehuda Altein Brooklyn, NY

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Interestingly, he also writes Leihgestern clearly: "I circumcised the boy Moshe son of Chaim from Leihgestern on Thursday, 15 Shevat, 5612." Yehuda Altein Brooklyn, NY

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Thank you everyone for all your help! It seems to me that the most reasonable translation is "here" for היער and Leihgestern for לאשדערן. Here are samples of the place names: "In 1836 I circumcised hi

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I'm sorry; I now see that "hier" does mean "here" in German. This might be what he means. Thank you! Yehuda Altein Brooklyn, NY

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Thank you! The problem is that almost all the other towns he references are within a 10-mile radius of Giessen (e.g., Lollar, Alten-Buseck, Daubringen). I'm pretty sure those letters are accurate - he

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In other places, when referencing circumcisions in his hometown, the mohel writes מכאן. Also, isn't "here" English, not German? Yehuda Altein Brooklyn, NY

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I'm trying to decipher place names written in Hebrew by a mohel recording the names and places of boys he circumcised. All these locations are in the region of Giessen, in Hesse, Germany. I'm having d

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