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Submitted by Gal Malul

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - Other
Approval Date: 9/2/2026 7:04 PM
Family Surname:
Country: Israel
Town: Safed
Date of Image: c. 1870-1920
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A line in Arabic script, written in pencil with what looks like a flourish drawn across it, on the flyleaf of a printed book in Arabic that has come down in my family. Below it, on the same page, there is a separate line in Hebrew cursive. I would be grateful for a transcription, and for your view on whether this is a personal signature rather than a note, and whether a name can be read from it. As with any signature, I would rather not say what I expect it to say. Please transcribe what you see. The book belonged to a Jewish family that lived in Ottoman Palestine and later in Egypt, roughly 1870 to 1920.

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