This postcard is well-traveled. I bought it online from someone in Estonia, who told me he had taken it from an album he had bought on a trip to Romania. The message on the back of the postcard is written in German, so he assumed the photo had been sent from Germany to relatives in Romania.
The studio where the photograph was taken, Studio Art Lazar Ibrahimieh, turns out to have been located not in Germany but in Alexandria, Egypt.
The message on the back translates to: “My children send a warm kiss to Uncle and Aunt Gelbendorf.”
If only the children’s mother had added her name as well! So far I haven’t succeeded in identifying Mathilde and Clary Levin in available records.
Tokens of Companionship 
A delight!
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Thank you, Carol!
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Lovely photo. Good luck with your research!
Is it Gellendorf or Gelbendorf? The second L looks to me like a B.
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It does look like a B, doesn’t it. I’ll change what I wrote. Good eye, Val!
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I’ve just shared this post to my Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/valsvintagepotpourri/posts/303807493445117
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That’s so nice of you, Val. I hope visitors to my blog will visit your Facebook page as well. It’s full of fun things!
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I’ve been meaning to give a link to one or two of your posts for quite a while now. I’m also going to mention you, sometime (not sure when yet) in a blog post. There are a few very special blogs I follow and yours is certainly one of them. Thanks for the re-share, too!
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You’re very kind! Our blogs are complementary, in a way, because we share similar material but focus on different aspects of it. I’d love to share one of your beautiful photos on my blog. The challenge will be deciding which one….
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You’re welcome if you want to reblog one of mine here. Also – if you’d agree to me colouring one of your photos and posting a before and after version on my blog, I’m happy to do a colouring free. (I’ll let you choose which photo, though. Email me if you want.)
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Perhaps Sephardim and with relatives all over Europe. Poignant because the community, described by Andre Aciman (Out of Egypt), no longer exists in Alexandria, as you know! Lovely photo.
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Thanks for visiting some of the dustier corners of my blog! I enjoyed your post about mirrors, and look forward to more artistic reflections and adventures!
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