Stone ID:

N21B

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:

מנחם אלימלך

Name English:

Menachem Elimelech

Surname Original:

פיעטניצער

Surname English:

Pyetnitzer

Father Original:

משה יוסף

Father English:

Moshe Yosef

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

16-Tishrei-5691

Death Date:

1930-10-08*

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Primary Symbol:

crown

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here buried
a man
flawless and reputable, he walked the flawless path
[...] all his days
his life was short, his deeds many
'Eli Melech (unto whom) the world raises its eyes'
[h] Menachem Elimelech son of
[h] Moshe Yosef of blessed memory, died
on the second day of Sukkot (in the) year 5691
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life
Meilech Pyetnitzer

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Stone Condition:

good, apart from severe crack through epitaph field, obliterating a portion of the epitaph; significant traces of paint remain, including red/orange on top and base, black in the name field and in some characters, and yellow/gold in some characters

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:

[N] Symbol at top is a crown in which is inscribed כתר תרה, 'Crown of Torah', indicating a male grave – within the crown emblem, תורה is misspelled as תרה.
[N] Lines 3&5 תמים/מרובים and lines 4&6 ימיו/עניו rhyme. Present also is a structure based on four appearances of the letter מ, highlighted in gold on successive lines. Thus the מ of מעשיו on line 5 [which also serves as 'מ, the honorific for מורינו which 'attaches' to אלימלך on the next line] is followed by מלך, מנחם, משהon lines 6, 7 and 8 respectively.
[N5] Literally 'his life few', חייו מועטים is translated as 'his life short'. The rhyming pair of antonyms, few/many מועטים/מרובים, both praising the deceased, is 'lost' in the English translation.
[N6-7] His given name אלימלך appears twice, on successive lines. On line 6, אלי and מלך are almost-imperceptibly spaced apart, in order to highlight מלך as being one of the 4xמ cascade [see [N] above]. Furthermore, Eli Melech, split thus, provides a reading of אלי מלך עולם נשא עניו 'my God, King, (unto Whom) the world raises its eyes' and, no doubt deliberately, may also be construed in a parallel fashion un-split as praise for 'Elimelech (unto whom) the world raises its eyes'. Elimelech 'must' therefore be repeated on the following line 7, in order to serve in a purely-genealogical capacity.
[N9] The second day of Sukkot, 16th Tishrei, 5691.
[N10] Meilech מיילעך is the popular Yiddish shortening of the Hebrew name Elimelech.

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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