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Digital catalogs sometimes misread handwriting

I regularly find errors in digital catalogs that resulted from someone misreading a handwritten entry and incorrectly transliterating it into text. Looking for Taube Josefowicz? Better check Tanbe Jozefowicz. It’s no accident that I stumbled upon the ship manifest for … Continue reading

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