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That doesn't look like Hebrew to me. I'm not Jewish though.

i agree, but i thought that maybe cursive hebrew looked very different. in fact, this doesn't look like anything at all to me

It might be Farsi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dehkhoda_note.jpg) or some other Middle Eastern language.

yes, someone suggested arabic, but i don't think it looks like farci on the picture you linked to. for one thing, look how many c's there are on the photo and none on that picture

This is what Hebrew looks like. :)

yes, but i thought maybe cursive hebrew looked like that. i wonder what that could be then

Oh, that's right. It does look a bit like cursive Hebrew. Sorry I can't give you a more definite answer, I only learned Hebrew for the purpose of my bat mitzvah, so I can only read the religious type.

oh, so it could be cursive hebrew after all. okay.

could be says nothing! nothing! i want a translation, god dammit!

well, i posted that at a translation community, and they say it's yiddish after all. but all they could read was: 'from your sister', 'my brother in', and 'Frida'

people at a translators' community say it's yiddish!

ha! i can't read cursive yiddish or hebrew (which are the same), so unfortunately i can't be much of help. :(

when i next see my grandparents i'll show it to them and find out what it means, they should know :)

this is how people at ru_yiddish translated that for me:

Tsum eybikn ondeynkung far mayn bruder un shvester
Fun dayn shvester un shvegern Frida Smilkshteyn.

for eternal memory, to my brother and sister.
from your sister and (? mother-in-law) Frida Smilkstein.

that's a good translation!

do you kow both hebrew and yiddish? and what about arabic?

i know arabic fairly well. my hebrew is "ok" and my yiddish is only a little ok. but this is a bit of a formulaic piece :)
i love the look of hebrew cursive! it's very different from hebrew printing, just like cyrillic!

arabic perhaps?

god, i hope not.

why not! you could even be atruestory's relative!

i already don't know how to answer people when they ask me "what are you".

oh, answer 'cosmopolitan', that sounds cool

не похоже на иврит. может арамейский?

first of all, it's upside down.
secondly, it's Yiddish cursive which is identical to Hebrew
thirdly, my knowledge of Yiddish is very limited and i don't understand this handwriting very well, so there were only a few words that i was able to understand:
first word is "tsum" which means "with"
2 last words in the third line - "mayn bruder" - my brother
5th line - "fun dayn shvester" - from your sister

well, damn, someone at the translation community suggested that it's upside down. but the way first line is sloping looks quite unnatural then! people at the community translated the same words you mentioned, and also 'Frida'

is it a photo from your family archive?

no, it's from here: http://poemtree.livejournal.com/156979.html

Это Идиш

да, мне тут уже даже вроде перевели: http://vriad-lee.livejournal.com/468984.html?thread=2902520#t2902520

Да верно.
shvegern = невестка

that is hebrew cursive. it's right side up.

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