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Maybe someone can translate this?

Okay a lil bit story its a postcard with a photo of my relative but i dont know who she is, and I think that the answer can be at this postcard text

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I enjoy cryptic crosswords and speak Yiddish and am wondering if this overlap group has any more members. If this is you, or want it to be you, I created a guide to cryptic crosswords in Yiddish plus a cryptic crossword.

איך האָב ליב כיטרע קעסטל רעטענישן און איך רעד ייִדיש און איך וואונדער זיך צי עס זענען אויך דאָ אַנדערע. אויב דאָס ביסטו, אָדער די װילסט עס זאָל אַזוי זיין, האָב איך געשריבן אַ וועגווײַזער און אַ רעטעניש אויף ייִדיש.

כ'האָב געמאַכט דעמ דיזײַן צו דרוקן לײַבלעך, שעמט זיך ניט אים אױך צו ניצן

"While the JAFC was supported by the Soviet government during World War Two as it worked to rally international Jewish support (and funding) for the war effort, after the war the very fact that the committee appealed to Jews around the world caused it to be branded as nationalist and therefore criminal in the Soviet Union. Secondly, the night of the execution was only the end of an ordeal that had gone on for years. The trial of the JAFC members lasted for two months, and this came after they had been imprisoned, interrogated, and tortured for two or three years in some cases.

The principle defendant in the trial, Solomon Lozovskii, testified that, “What is on trial here is the Yiddish language.”

Among the murdered were several of the most prominent Soviet Yiddish writers and from 1949-59 all Yiddish publishing was banned

Sources:

https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/educational-programs/resources-teachers/resource-kits-teachers/soviet-jewish-experience/night?utm_source=email&utm_medium=weeklyreader&utm_campaign=0809markish

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4466454

https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/85

https://www.jmberlin.de/en/symposium-night-of-murdered-poets

https://academic.oup.com/book/39941/chapter-abstract/340221246?redirectedFrom=fulltext

What is the English translation of the title of the short story "Nokh der milkhome", by Kalmen Segal. It was published in Di goldene keyt in 1973, issue 82 (I've also seen it spelt Nuux der milxumy). I know Nokh der roughly means "After the". The entry in the Jewish English Lexicon for milkhome says it either means war or the Holocaust. The only copy of the short story I've found is an audiobook at the Yiddish Book Center. Can somebody with the knowhow look at the context and tell me which translation it is?

Hello,

I'm a 34 yo German language learner from Israel, currently at ~A2 level.

When I was a kid, it was common that open trucks would drive once in a while in neighborhoods and their driver would call (at my time using speakers) Alte Sachen. They would take old unneeded items.

It was always very strange for me as a kid, since I didn't understand the language. The people who did this were often arabs so I thought it was something in Arabic.

Only yesterday I made the connection that אלטע זאכן is actually Alte Sachen in Yiddish. I find it funny that a custom of east European jews to sell/give away old items migrated with them to Israel and retained the name that further generations would not understand (I know that Israel has a large Yiddish speaking population, I mean the general population).

For more reading Wiki (in Israeli context, the truck in the lower pic is similar to what I remember).

thought it might interest some folks here.

# Contexto — Álbum familiar judío (Lituania/Polonia → Argentina)

Hola — estoy tratando de descifrar varios documentos manuscritos de un álbum

familiar. Creo que el idioma principal es **ídish** (alfabeto hebreo), aunque

también hay hebreo formal en algunas tarjetas y un sello impreso en ruso/polaco

en otras. Agradecería muchísimo cualquier ayuda con la transcripción y

traducción, aunque sea parcial.

## Lo que ya sabemos (para dar contexto):

1. **01_postal_1936.jpg** — Tarjeta dedicatoria en hebreo, fechada 1936,

   probablemente de una agrupación de mujeres jóvenes en Polonia.

2. **02_postal_1931_reverso.jpg** — Tarjeta similar, fechada 1931. Incluye

   anotaciones a lápiz en el margen (posible tamaño de foto "30 x 40" y un

   nombre) y un pie de imprenta parcial "...KAUN..." (¿Kaunas?).

3. **03_reverso_Kovno.jpg** — Reverso de foto de estudio, con sello impreso de

   un estudio fotográfico en Kovno/Kaunas (calle "...ская Большая, д. 12") y

   una anotación en tinta que podría decir "г. Ковно" (ciudad de Kovno) — OJO:

   no estoy seguro si esto es ruso o si en realidad también es ídish/hebreo

   mal interpretado por mí.

4. **04_postal_BuenosAires_1941.jpg** — Reverso con sello de estudio

   fotográfico "Foto del Arte — Lubilsky — Corrientes 2608 — Buenos Aires",

   fechado 23/1/1941. El texto manuscrito por encima podría estar en ídish.

5. **05, 06, 07** — Retratos de estudio (Wilno, estudio B. Brudner; posible

   Kovno; y un anciano con casquete/kipá, estudio sin identificar).

## Apellidos posibles de la familia:

Lewin / Levinas / Lewinas (variantes de transliteración)

## Lo que necesito:

- Transcripción del texto manuscrito (ídish/hebreo) en cada tarjeta

- Traducción al español o inglés

- Cualquier pista sobre nombres propios, relaciones familiares, o el

significado de las anotaciones a lápiz

¡Muchas gracias de antemano!