Piece of paper with text, 19th c.

The Oppenheim House holds untold stories that we are unable to fully reconstruct. Among the objects found here during the 2013–2017 renovation was this piece of paper, presumably ripped from a notebook. Researchers and paper conservators estimate that it dates back to the 19th c. It contains repeated Hebrew letters and a few words in Yiddish, a language still used by some local Jews: ich (I), mich (me), dich (you), foter (father), mutter (mother), bruder (brother), zohn (son), kind (child), mayn (my), dayn (your). The letters are even and written with a well-practiced hand, but we will probably never know which resident of the Oppenheim House used this piece of paper to practice their written Yiddish.