Stone ID:

N09B

Location:

Wall of Memory

Grounded/Loose:

grounded

Intact/Fragment:

intact Group:

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Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

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Name Original:

אסתר פיני

Name English:

Esther Pini

Surname Original:

נוסבוים

Surname English:

Nussboim

Father Original:

שלמה חיים

Father English:

Shlomo Chaim

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Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

20-Adar-5699

Death Date:

1939-03-11*

Age:

52

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Primary Symbol:

5-arm candelabrum

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here buried
a woman 'kosher' and modest
died in the prime of her life
in the 52nd year of her life, generous
of heart as (were) her parents, the lady Esther
Pini daughter of [h] Shlomo Chaim, of blessed memory
died Shabbat 20th Adar
5699, may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life
E. Nussboim

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Stone Condition:

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:

[N2] The term 'kosher' implies that she kept an orthodox-Jewish household.
[N3] Literally, as one would do with a flower, 'she was plucked, in her youthful days'. Whether 52 is to be considered 'youthful' is moot.
[N4] Literally 'in the year 52 of the days of her life'.
[N5] There is the faintest dot/dagesh in the פּ which suggests that this name is pronounced Pini and not Fini. If not in error, an unusual and rare given name.
[N7] Sense can only be made of this line by playing with the spaces in order to isolate the clearly-inscribed letters שבס – the Ashkenazi pronunciation 'Shabbes' rather than Shabbat שבת. Then, inspecting which days of ב the month fell on Shabbat in Adar 5699 [which was not a leap year], only the 20th Adar fits – by moving the to act as a prefix to אדר, thus rendering 'of Adar' rather than what appears to be 2nd Adar, which cannot be correct since it fell on a Tuesday.
[N8] E. for Esther, Nussboim [or Nussbaum, a more-common spelling of this surname].

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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