Esther Kaplan's Wysokie Album - A Keepsake from Ephrayim Epshtein

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Overview
Max Leavitt - The Old Country
1934 Photo Album
Friedman-Zajac Album
Hoffman Family Album
Minoff Family Album
Jewish Cemeteries
Esther Kaplan Album
- At a Vitshulker Grave
- The Goldfarbs
- Hershl Feldman
- Vitshulker Friends
- From A. Schewtz
- From E. Epshtein
- From K. Dikenaltz
- Theatrical Group
- Cast of a stage play
- Poalei Zion Group
- Youth of Zion Group
- Trumpeldoria Group
- An Unidentified Woman
- An Unidentified Couple
- An Unidentified Trio
- Six Young Women
- An Unidentified Group
- The Market Square
Kessler Album
Dorothy Kraus Memoir
A Pre-School Song
1894 Affidavit
New Memorial
A Walk to the Old Shul
A Bibliography
Visokers of Petakh-Tikva
Artifacts
Rabbis Of Wysokie
Street Mapping
My Ancestral Homes
Old News Articles
Landmanshaft Publications
1928 Voters List
Old Shul Rebuild 2010
1926 Polish Tribute
Roslyn's Photos
Charyton Memoir
Kolner Family Memoir
New Shul Cleanup
HG's Letters from W-L
Tenenbaum Memoir
Lichtshtein Album
Holocaust
Lewis Autobiography
Applicable Rulings
Contributors Only

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Esther Kaplan's Wysokie Album

A Keepsake from Ephrayim Epshtein
It was apparently a custom in 1930's for emigrating Wysokers to give an inscribed photo to their friends and relations remaining behind. This one was from Ephrayim Epshtein to Zlate and Reizl Vitshulker.

A keepsake

(photo reverse)
Wysokie Litewskie, 1929

Yiddish on the reverse:

מיין בילד
אנדענקונג פאר
מיינע בעסטע בעקאנטע
זלאטע און רייזל ויטשולקער
פון מיר אפרים עפשטיין

The English translation:

My photo.
A remembrance for
my best acquaintances,
Zlate and Reizl Vitshulker.
From me, Ephrayim Epshtein

Notes: Such keepsakes from emigrating Wysokers were not uncommon. Were photographs becoming less expensive, or were the emigrating families more affluent?

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