[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements--letters of Fania Bergstein and family in need of translation
Victor Bers
victor.bers at yale.edu
Mon Jan 3 13:34:15 EST 2011
Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements
Jan. 3, 2011
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:14:18 +0200
From: Einat Amitay <einat.amitay at gmail.com>
Subject: early letters of Fania Bergstein and her family in need of
translation
Shalom,
A friend advised me to write to the Mendele mailinglist and maybe you all
could help. My name is Einat and I'm an avid collector and researcher of
culture of kibbutz' children. Last week, during an interview with the
nephew of Fania Bergstein who lives in kibbutz Beit HaShita, I discovered
over 150 letters of Fania Bergstein and her family in a shoebox. The
letters were not known to researchers or people from outside the family.
Following this discovery I've decided to scan ALL the letters in order to
upload them to the web for all to see and explore.
The letters are in Yiddish (mostly), Polish, Russian, Hebrew and English.
I am now trying to find volunteers who can help me translate the letters
into searchable Hebrew - and make them freely available for research and
exploration. The site - where the letters, some information about the
project and some details about the Bergstein family can be found is here:
http://nigunim-project.blogspot.com/
The site is in Hebrew and so far I have uploaded 100 letters and postcards
and I intend to upload all of them by the end of this week. You are all
very welcome
to help translate and decipher these amazing pieces of history.
Thanks,
Einat
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