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Translate Book Inscription, Hebrew to English

Elle
United States of America

Translate Book Inscription, Hebrew to English

Post by Elle »

?Can someone please translate to English the handwriting shown in the photo below

Thank you

T. Bikel Book Inscription
T. Bikel Book Inscription
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Friedrich Rubinstein

Re: Translate Book Inscription, Hebrew to English

Post by Friedrich Rubinstein »

That's actually Yiddish, but I cannot decipher the second word. It says
דאר _____ מיט א גרוס
[insert signature]

which means

The [name I cannot read] with a greeting.

Elle
United States of America

Re: Translate Book Inscription, Hebrew to English

Post by Elle »

Friedrich Rubinstein, I am much obliged. I beg your pardon for not knowing this was Yiddish (not Hebrew).

Friedrich Rubinstein

Re: Translate Book Inscription, Hebrew to English

Post by Friedrich Rubinstein »

Please don't apologize, there is no way to know that unless you can read it. Both languages use the Hebrew letters after all.
I need to correct myself though. After realizing that the signature is that of Theodor Bikel himself (in Latin letters actually, not Hebrew letters), it's clearer now that the first letter is actually a
ד and not a פ,
meaning the first word is פאר,
which means "for".
(Sorry for the terrible formatting, this right-to-left is otherwise making a mess)

I still cannot read the name it was dedicated to.
It seems to start with a
ב and end on a ל, then an ש
Possibly Shloyb (which is the Yiddish form of Salomon) or Shelev. Perhaps you know if the person whom this book belong(ed) to had a name similar to that.

So in full, it says:

For [Shloyb or some other name]
with a greeting.
T. Bikel

I'm afraid that's all I can decipher there.

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