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Dear brother-in-law Lozer,
Thank you for your letter. Please, in future
don't take any notice that I don't write and only Rivka does. As
you know, we in Poland are a lazy lot and the times are such that
one is not always in the mood for writing. But Rivka never waits
and answers your letters immediately.
We were waiting for a letter from you and
it finally arrived. Thank God that last Pesach you managed to
extricate yourself from this "Golden State" and you have found
such devoted friends in Australia. I hope that in your next letter
you will be able to tell us how you have settled in Melbourne and
how lucky you are.
Luck is paramount and you should be happy
that you made the move. Look how unlucky I am. For the last two
years I have been traveling to Palestine, Cuba, the United States
and back to Cuba, and as you say, it is all bluff. [Yedidi did not
actually travel to these places. These are the places he has
attempted to migrate to.]
I have lost hope of being able to tear
myself away from here through them [Palestine, Cuba and the United
States will not help him] and through my father [his father's
efforts on his behalf have failed too]. There is no other way. I
must energetically accelerate my efforts to achieve migration
while I still have the means.
This brings me to ask you, dear
brother-in-law, whether it would be possible for someone to send
me papers to migrate to Australia. Either yourself, if you are in
a position to do so, or you could ask Benny [Benyamin - Ben
Rosenbaum] who surely remembers me. You can assure them that it
will not cost them anything. I can pay for travel expenses and if
I have to prove that I possess two hundred pounds I will manage to do that
too. I will turn to my uncles in the United States for help as I
can't come empty handed. I'm fully aware that unlike yourself I
have no one to come to. Granted you are there already, but I would
only expect advice from you, not material help. I'm even prepared
to come on my own, but what would Rivka and the children do
without me? So it is wiser that we come together.
Write to me and let me know
if I'll be able to earn a living from my trade [he was a leather
tanner] in Australia. Or, will two hundred pounds be sufficient to start a new
business? This is something you should know by now. I beg of you,
write to me in detail, without compunction, the full truth even if
it means that the information may make me realize that this window
of opportunity may be closed for me. I have written to my brother
Abraham in Argentina, but regrettably, for now, he is not able to
send me papers. However, should the immigration policies there
change, he would be able to help. These are the only two
alternatives for me - either Australia or Argentina.
Other than that there is nothing special
to report. One pushes time adding another year to life. The
children are growing up and one begins to consider their future
but when I consider the reality of our life how can one make plans
for future here? I conclude with best wishes. Ask Zelda to write
without waiting for you.
All the best,
Yedidi |
