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GCPP Crews 5/14

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Specimens of correspondence in Judaeo-Spanish, 1915 - 1919

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Crews 5/14
Scope and Contents This material provides much information about the language in the 20thC, with examples in both Hebrew and Roman characters (chiefly the latter). Typescript and manuscript, 1915-19, nearly all in transliteration, mostly 1918-19, with a few notes. Probably mainly censorship material. Written from a variety of places (thus supplying many variants of the language), including: the USA (New York, Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Brunswick); Canada; Malta; Manchester; London; Jerusalem; Salonica....
Dates: 1915 - 1919