1920s/30s ad for Gold Dust cleanser

[booksandcheeses.livejournal.com]

This is a Yiddish-language ad for Gold Dust cleansing products.
At first, I didn't think it was genuine even though I found it in Yeshiva University's archives-- just because so much of what I sounded out seemed like phonetic English. But after running some of it by my Yiddish-speaking relatives, I learned that transliterating English words into Hebrew/Yiddish alphabet was not uncommon in ads back in the day. 

The top tagline says "A lecture from this superintendent for the co-operative tenants."



 If anyone wants to translate it, it pops big. :)

Comments

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

This is extremely cool.

The part by the washing powder says something like "Kosher under the supervision of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Kahn of New York."

Not sure how I even figured that much out though so unfortunately I can't help with the rest.

[booksandcheeses.livejournal.com]

Oh, many thanks! You got more of that sequence than I did ("kosher... New York?"). All I can read is the phonetically English parts: The top tag, "Gold Dust," "Washing Powder," and "Scouring Powder."

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

Neat.

[ticktockman.livejournal.com]

It's a bit too wordy for my taste. {grin}

*daha*

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I don't know much about Yiddish publications, but I do know they were very common in the last century. I remember seeing an episode of History Detectives) that showed a farming magazine written in Yiddish. Apparently, Jewish farmers were common enough at one time to have their own trade publication.