"Hope for a New Life"?

[Wayles Browne]

Elizabeth Papazian asks:

>
>A colleague who studies Israeli culture asked me to translate the following
>bilingual caption on a poster, which he believes is a film poster from the
>1930s (for a propaganda film urging people to come to Israel).
>Unfortunately, I don't understand Romanian or Hungarian, and thought perhaps
>someone on the list could help.

They don't say the same thing!

>SPRE O VIATÁ NOVÁ

"Towards a new life" (Romanian)

>AZ IGERET FOLDJE

"The Promised Land" (Hungarian)



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Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

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e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu

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