: Just for clarity and information for those of us who are unaware of it
Until practically well unto the fifties of the former century Yiddish writers of letters in Eastern Europe, as well as authors, wrote without punctuation. Even Bialik and Agnon, who wrote already in Hebrew, wrote their works without punctuation.
Shabbat Shalom
Mordecai Lapidot
----- äåãòä î÷åøéú ----- îàú: Ian Beitel <ianbeitel_at_sympatico.ca> úàøéê: Thursday, January 17, 2019 20:35 ðåùà: [Cz-L] Uscher Beutel àì: Czernowitz Mailing-Liste <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu> > --Apple-Mail-C529AD08-4709-45FD-8FF5-675C9239153B > > I would like to thank everyone who responded to my request for a > translation=. I also sent the text to the Canadian Jewish > Archives and I received the fo= > llowing translation from them. I hope you find the historical > content of int= > erest. We do know that the Russians did invade and that the town > of Boyan, f= > rom where Uscher may well have written the letter was destroyed. > =46rom a pe= > rsonal point of view Uscher mentions people who are unknown to > anyone in our= > family today. Many thanks again. > > > > NOTE: Punctuation, or words added for clarity in English are > inserted insi= > de square brackets: [ ]. Partly legible or missing words are > preceded and fo= > llowed by a ?. > >=20 > > TOP OF LETTER :=20 > > USCHER BEUTEL / Uscie Biekupie > >=20 > > ... and also we are a little frightened about the battle but > one hopes tha= > t Russia will not go. And if God forbid Russia should also go it > would not b= > e good. The whole world would be fighting and we here would have > no value ..= > . > >=20 > > [facing page] > >=20 > > ... still now this evil here by us. > >=20 > > [There is] no more news[,] and I send you fond regards and > also regards to= > all the good brothers[,] and my fond regards to ?step- > brother? Mottel[,] an= > d also my regards to Abraham ?Shiya? and his wife... > >=20 > >>=20 > >>=20 > > > ----------------------------------------------------------=
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