About This Item


  • Call NumberBJHP_0075
  • SummaryTwo letters in Yiddish, with their translation from Leib Eliyahu Gurwicz to his sister Ida in America about the life of the family in Svencionys, Ukraine.
  • Date[1900-1909?]
  • Physical Description5 leaves : digital, PDF, black and white
  • Creator[Unknown]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Jewish History Project
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Jewish History Project, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Formatstill image
  • Genreletters (correspondence)
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Original document digitized on December 2019 as a TIFF. Donated for capture anonymously Collected through the Brooklyn Jewish History Project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded by the David Berg Foundation.
  • SubjectLetters
  • PlaceOther place
  • LocationSvencionys, Ukraine
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
  • TitleA Gravesend family. Two letters in Yiddish about family life in Svencionys, Ukraine in the 1900s.