Stone ID:

N03A

Location:

Wall of Memory

Grounded/Loose:

grounded

Intact/Fragment:

intact Group:

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Material:

Color: black Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

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Name Original:

יהודה

Name English:

Yehuda

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Father Original:

מנחם

Father English:

Menachem

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Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

29-Shevat-5698

Death Date:

1938-02-01*

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Primary Symbol:

crown

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here buried
an elderly man, (who) provided
for himself from the fruits of his labor
[h] Yehuda son of [h]
Menachem, died 1st (day) of Rosh Chodesh
First Adar (in the) year 5698
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

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Stone Condition:

very good

Conservation:

Recovered from a walkway behind the house at vul. Adama Mitskevycha 8 in downtown Dobromyl in March 2016, then installed in a newly-constructed Wall of Memory at the Dobromyl Jewish cemetery in May and June 2016; see the web page About Dobromyl for more information.

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Recovery Date:

2016-03-12

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Other Notes:

[N5-6] 5698 was a Jewish leap year. As such, it had two Adar months – an extra intercalated First Adar [Adar I] and the usual Adar, renamed Second Adar [Adar II]. His death occurred on the first day of Rosh Chodesh [New Month, celebrating the 'new moon'] First Adar. When a month has two days of Rosh Chodesh, the first is celebrated on the last day of the previous month. Thus the equivalent date was 29th Sh'vat, not 1st Adar I.
[N6] The year 5698 appears as 600+8+90 (תרח'ץ) rather than the usual hundreds/tens/units format 600+90+8 (תרצ'ח) because the latter spells the Hebrew word for 'murder' or 'kill'. תרצ'ח was therefore often avoided on gravestones that year, throughout the Jewish world, for fear of 'the evil eye' (עין הרע).

See About Dobromyl for an index to headstone locations in the Wall of Memory.
Stone is recorded as Grounded because it is fixed in the Wall of Memory.

Last Revision:

2024-04-28

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