Stone ID:

S16C

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:

צבי

Name English:

Tzvi

Surname Original:

פלוגער

Surname English:

Flugger

Father Original:

שמואל

Father English:

Shmuel

Husband Original:

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Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

09-Iyar-5695

Death Date:

1935-05-12*

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Primary Symbol:

crown

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here buried
a man flawless and reputable, God-fearing, walked
the unerring path and avoided evildoing
from his bread he gave to the needy
[h] Tzvi son of [h]
Shmuel, who 'departed to his world'
on the day 9th Iyyar (in the) year 5695
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life
Hersch Flugger
Kwaszenina

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Stone Condition:

good; large crack through epitaph field obscures only a common phrase; traces of blue paint remain in the name of the deceased and the town, and black paint remains on the field of the 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:

[N2] The literal 'God-fearing' is a translation that is widely-accepted, meaning 'devout'. 'God' is inscribed 'ד rather than 'ה, the standard abbreviation for Hashem השם [The Name]. Appearing only in writing, 'ד represents an even-higher level of 'distancing' than that provided by 'ה, but is nevertheless voiced 'Hashem'.
[N6] The phrase 'departed to his world' is a common euphemistic expression for 'died'.
[N7] איר is an unusual spelling of the month אייר Iyyar.
[N8] One of the images, greatly enlarged, reveals a series of five apostrophes below which it then becomes clear are the letters of the ubiquitous ת נ צ ב ה abbreviation. Beneath this is a decorative, dividing element that, at first sight, might have been thought to be the base of a different set of letters.
[N9] Hersch [Yiddish] and Tzvi [Hebrew] on line 5 are synonymous names for 'deer'.
[N10] Kwaszenina lies about 10km west of Dobromyl, nowadays just across the border in Poland. Either the deceased was born there and lived in Dobromyl, or he was brought to Dobromyl for burial.

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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