Mary Jane Shubow (asker) Aug 9, 2012:

Going first to HE>PO and then PO>EN? The words written in Hebrew letters are not Hebrew words. They are foreign words transliterated into Hebrew, and I never know for sure if they are Polish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Russian or Yiddish. Depending on the context, I can sometimes make an educated guess and try to transliterate them into English and find things on Google, but I am shooting in the dark. I rely on the group of Hebrew-English translators, who know many other languages as well, to be able to recognize what language the transliteration represents if it is a language they know, and then to give me an English translation. This has proven to be more effective than groping in the dark with Google. Thank you all for all your help!