Stone ID:

N18A

Location:

Wall of Memory

Grounded/Loose:

grounded

Intact/Fragment:

intact Group:

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Material:

Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

Inscription Character Height, cm:

Name Original:

אסתר

Name English:

Esther

Surname Original:

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Father Original:

יעקב מרדכי

Father English:

Yaakov Mordechai

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

female

Death Date Hebrew:

28-Kislev-5698

Death Date:

1937-12-02*

Age:

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Profession:

Primary Symbol:

5-arm candelabrum

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here buried
a woman 'kosher' and modest
she walked the honest path, the lady
Esther
daughter of [h] Yaakov Mordechai
died 28th Kislev
(in the) year 5698
may her soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

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Stone Condition:

good; broken at top and bottom, some characters difficult to read

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] Both photographic images seem to support a spelling here of ושרה ve'Sara – which is meaningless, given the context. The problematic letter vav appears to have been subsequently-corrected to a yud, yielding ישרה. Without a doubt, this is correct – forming the standard phrase 'the honest path'. ישרה 'yesha[y]ra' also rhymes with כשרה 'keshayra' on the previous line.
[N6] 28th Kislev = 4th day of Chanukah.
[N6-7] Pursuant to [N3], two further corrections were made to this gravestone at some stage. The still-visible letter ב was deleted from the string כ'חבכסלו and replaced by a space, while still retaining the meaning 28th 'in' Kislev. A far-more serious error, inscribing two months – כסלו Kislev and the still-visible טבת Tevet – resulted in the deletion of the latter.
[N7] The year 5698 appears as תרח'ץ [600+8+90] rather than the usual hundreds/tens/units format תרצ'ח [600+90+8], 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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