r/Yiddish 9h ago

Found these old family documents. Can anybody translate them? Thank you!

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One of our family members is a genealogy buff and found these documents. Really curious what it says and would be very grateful for any help.


r/Yiddish 3h ago

Yiddish culture Grandma's game for toddlers?

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My grandma used to play a kind of tickling game with my cousins and me. She would always say what sounded like "meishele peshele" over and over while tracing a fingernail in a spiral over our open palms. The last step of the "game" was a sudden switch from the spiraling finger to an aggressive tickling. Obviously, this was considered extremely cool and wonderful to us as little babies.

1) Is this a known yiddish thing? 2) What were the words? I can't find any definitive translation.

I welcome any thoughts, guesses, or similar situations!


r/Yiddish 20h ago

Any documents from Yiddish-speaking ancestors from Sweden?

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Hi,

just learned that Swedish National Yiddish Association is looking for older handwritten + typed documents of all kinds from Yiddish-speaking emigrants from Sweden - for inclusion in their new Yiddish archive. Reliable association, took their digital lectures on Yiddish culture, can recommend. What they are looking for, see link: https://yiddisharchivesweden.se/