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Please help me read this letter in Hebrew #romania #israel #translation

Leah Herz
 

I have posted a letter on ViewMate that was sent from Zefat, Israel in 1888 to the Rabbis in Romania

To raise funds for their community. The letter has the signature of my g-g-g-grandfather. Also please

Help me read the names of the people who signed this letter.

 

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM90033

 

Thank you so much for your help,

 

Leah Herz

 

Researching, STEINMETZ – GANCZ families originally from Poland – then Borsa and Dragomiresti, in the Maramures Region –

That was Pre WW1 Hungary then became Romania

alantanaman@...
 

I've made a feeble attempt to do the names (I've skipped the prefix and some of the swirling suffixes, which I do not understand):

Right-hand column
1) אברהם חיים בארשא - Avraham Haim Bersha (probably Borsa, see https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%90)
2) Also a Bersha, but I cannot make out the forename properly.
3) ונאט דנבווידר מרודאונלכלן - I cannot transliterate that to something that makes sense.
4) יוסף בר"צ ישראעלר - Yossef BRZ Yisraeler.  I think BRZ could be Son of Tziyon, but someone else will probably have a better idea.
5) יעקב פנחס שטיין מרמומונע - Yaakov Pinhas Stein, from illegible.
6) חיים בהרב"י דינדרל - Haim Baharabi Dindarel
7) נודרא משה מיוולחאוויץ - Nudra Moshe, from illegible.

Left-hand column
8) Too swirly, cannot read
9) משה חה"ר ר' דינדיל - Moshe HHR R Dindil.  Not sure about the middle initiials.
10) יוסף מהרן ברנד מווטחאוויטץ - Yossef Maharan Brand, from unsure.
11) משה אברהם הכהן מדראגמורעשט - Moshe Avraham HaCohen from Dragmoresht (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragomire%C8%99ti,_Maramure%C8%99)
12) מרדכי סגל מסולושס - Mordekhai Segal from Soloshes(?)
13) Cannot make sense of it.

Please use the above with caution. I'm a Hebrew speaker, and am lacking in knowledge about a lot of the prefixes used and certain yiddish spellings of place names that may have been written.
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Regards,
Alan TANAMAN, Kfar Sava, Israel
Currently researching (1) GOLDBLATT WESTERMAN WESTERMANN in Friedrichstadt, Latvia; (2) ARONOWICZ AHARONOVIC BINDMAN in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolia, Ukraine; (3) TANAMAN ROSENTHAL in Warszawa, Poland; (4) KOZMINSKI RAUCH JERAMIOW LACHMAN in Koło, Poland; (5) KOSMINSKY in UK, South Africa, and Australia
Mark Stone
 

Dear Alan,

 

At the bottom of your note you are researching Poilskyi, Podolia.

 

My grandmother was Pudalow sometimes in family Podiloff and from Ukraine.

 

Because of the language and limitation of available details,I know very little.

 

Could you be of any help!

 

Regards

 

Mark Paul Stone (Lichtenstein Warsaw over one hundred years ago)

 

 

 

 

 

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I've made a feeble attempt to do the names (I've skipped the prefix and some of the swirling suffixes, which I do not understand):

Right-hand column
1) אברהם חיים בארשא - Avraham Haim Bersha (probably Borsa, see https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%90)
2) Also a Bersha, but I cannot make out the forename properly.
3) ונאט דנבווידר מרודאונלכלן - I cannot transliterate that to something that makes sense.
4) יוסף בר"צ ישראעלר - Yossef BRZ Yisraeler.  I think BRZ could be Son of Tziyon, but someone else will probably have a better idea.
5) יעקב פנחס שטיין מרמומונע - Yaakov Pinhas Stein, from illegible.
6) חיים בהרב"י דינדרל - Haim Baharabi Dindarel
7) נודרא משה מיוולחאוויץ - Nudra Moshe, from illegible.

Left-hand column
8) Too swirly, cannot read
9) משה חה"ר ר' דינדיל - Moshe HHR R Dindil.  Not sure about the middle initiials.
10) יוסף מהרן ברנד מווטחאוויטץ - Yossef Maharan Brand, from unsure.
11) משה אברהם הכהן מדראגמורעשט - Moshe Avraham HaCohen from Dragmoresht (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragomire%C8%99ti,_Maramure%C8%99)
12) מרדכי סגל מסולושס - Mordekhai Segal from Soloshes(?)
13) Cannot make sense of it.

Please use the above with caution. I'm a Hebrew speaker, and am lacking in knowledge about a lot of the prefixes used and certain yiddish spellings of place names that may have been written.
--
Regards,
Alan TANAMAN, Kfar Sava, Israel
Currently researching (1) GOLDBLATT WESTERMAN WESTERMANN in Friedrichstadt, Latvia; (2) ARONOWICZ AHARONOVIC BINDMAN in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolia, Ukraine; (3) TANAMAN ROSENTHAL in Warszawa, Poland; (4) KOZMINSKI RAUCH JERAMIOW LACHMAN in Koło, Poland; (5) KOSMINSKY in UK, South Africa, and Australia

Dubin, David M. MD
 

Signatures all begin Neum or Uneum, meaning “the words of”
Third name Dov Wieder of Rosa—-
Fifth name is Steinmetz, not stein, probably “from marmoresch” (see the stamped seal)
Sixth name. Son of rabbi zindel 
8 the insignificant Chaim Yitzchak —-
9- Moshe son of the rabbi zindel whose memory will live into the next world (zindel must have been a renowned holy man)
10- agree that 7 says “from Welchowitz” and the same place in this signature. 

13 either Heschel —- Tessler or the insignificant Shlomo? Tesler

david dubin
teaneck nj 
Dubin, David M. MD
 

Name 5 is Jakob Menachem Steinmetz, probably the person you’re looking for.


Praise God    Here (ie, Safed).  important notice


Among the tribes of Israel we send this Faithful notice

And its sound should pass among every corner and encampment

And within the borders of our Merciful brethren the people of our place Mermoresch
And the outlying places of Munkacz, Khust And all the places of the people of our state...

Much much more. The rabbis in Safed are asking for charity from that area in Hungary from which they came.

david Dubin 
teaneck nj 
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