My grandfather was named Reuven Chaim (Rudolph/Randolph) Klein. He was from He was a grandson of the Shenos Chaim (his father was Mordechai Klein, whose father Binyamin Eliezer Klein, who was the oldest son of the Shenos Chaim). He grew up in Klyachanovo, near Munkatch and was oprhaned from both his parents and basically was raised by his mother's second husband Shlomo Mermelstein and Mermelstein's third wife. Then my grandfather came to USA before WWII and he served in the US Army. In the mid 1950s he visited Israel as a bachelor, and in late 1959 he got married. Not long after he had two sons, he died in 1968.
I could somewhat read Yiddish, but it's not one of my top languages. The best idea woud be to digitize the papers and put them online and we can use it for research and keep it for the future. That's what I plan to do with my grandfather's recently-dsicovered archives.
Shalom & Kol Tuv,
Reuven Chaim Klein
Beitar Illit, Israel
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM Tanya Klein <tanya@precisionorganizing.net> wrote:
sorry, can you remind me who your grandfather was? and do you know yiddish? there is a box of letters in yiddish floating around somewhere that I can give you that I don't know whats written in there.On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM Reuven Chaim Klein <yeshivish@gmail.com> wrote:The scary thing is that 20 years when I was in Yeshiva, I emailed Chaim Spielman a question about his father's seforim and he wrote me back 2 weeks later saying that his father had been nifter and he was sitting shiva so he couldn't write back to me.Interestingly, the letters with your shvigger seems to have been written before she got married, but was already engaged. I don't know much about my grandfather, he died when my father was a little kid. Did your shvigger have any documents or letters that she kept that related to the family?Shalom & Kol Tuv,
Reuven Chaim Klein
Beitar Illit, Israel
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM Tanya Klein <tanya@precisionorganizing.net> wrote:Right? It was so weird to get your letter then sorry it was just so busy before and if that I didn't have time to reply to emails, but I really really appreciate this letter!Sent from my iPhoneOn Apr 24, 2025, at 7:59 AM, Reuven Chaim Klein <yeshivish@gmail.com> wrote:Woah. That is so scary.Shalom & Kol Tuv,
Reuven Chaim Klein
Beitar Illit, Israel
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM Tanya Klein <tanya@precisionorganizing.net> wrote:Hi there Reuven Chaim. Thank you so much for the letter. i will share it with the family on our whatsapp group. unfortunately my mother in law was nifteres three weeks ago! she was 97 years old.On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM Reuven Chaim Klein <yeshivish@gmail.com> wrote:I found the attached letter from your mother-in-law written to my grandfather. And another draft of a letter from him to her. Is she still alive?Gut Moyed,
Reuven Chaim Klein
Beitar Illit, Israel
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