Stone ID:

S04B

Location:

Wall of Memory

Grounded/Loose:

grounded

Intact/Fragment:

fragment Group:

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Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

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Name Original:

זלמן

Name English:

Zalman

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Father Original:

זינדל

Father English:

Zindel

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Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

26-Tevet-5693

Death Date:

1933-01-24*

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Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

Zalman son of the Rabbi the Gaon, the saintly
[h] Zindel, President of the Holy Rabbinic Court, Old Town
author of the book 'Zichron Yehuda'
died 26th Tevet 5693
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

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Stone Condition:

good, though fragment; some loss of characters in epitaph

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] The 'claim to fame' of the deceased is by way of his illustrious father, Zindel, whose book 'Zichron Yehuda' ['Commemoration of Yehuda' published 1876], echoes his given name Zindel by way of Zichron and reveals that he had another given name, Yehuda. Indeed, the title page records the author's full name as being Yehuda Zindel Mordechai son of Nechemiah Aryeh, President of the Holy Rabbinic Court 'Old Town'. As to the identity of this Old Town [Stare Miasto], the Latin-character text on the title page records that the book was self- published by 'J. Zindel Freindel [surname?], Rabiner Stare miasto' and printed by 'Zupnick & Knoller', Przemyśl. This city, with a thriving prewar Jewish population, is situated about 30km north of Dobromyl.
[N1] הרה'ג is the abbreviation for the rabbinic honorific הרב הגאון, 'the Rabbi the Gaon'.
[N1] החסיד 'saintly'. The intention may simply have been to label him as 'the Hasid', a Hasidic Jew.
[N2] אב'דק is the abbreviation for אב בית דין קודש, the position of leadership 'President [literally Father] of the Holy Rabbinic Court'.
[N3] בעה'מחס stands for בעל המחבר ספר, 'author of the book'.
[N4] Yehuda is spelled with an א rather than as יהודה, to avoid inscribing the divine Tetragrammaton name – the 4-letter transliteration YHVH, Jehovah.

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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