Some pictures to accompany recent posts

[rhu]

Alissa posted this sign on our front door on Friday; she figured the tooth fairy would benefit from a little advance notice. The layout is kinda boustrophedonic (boustrophedental?) but it says, reading down the left column and up the right, "Dear tooth fairy, my tooth wo [=will] fall out soon."


A closeup of some text from Max's machzor. Can anyone identify the lettershapes that are neither standard Hebrew block letters nor standard Rashi script? I've never seen those lettershapes before; they seem to show up in Yiddish "stage direction" paragraphs, often in place names, I think.

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[autotruezone.livejournal.com]

lucretia, are you referring to the letters on the bottom? That's called "fractur", which was the standard font for printed texts in German until sometime around the middle of the 20th century.