Stone ID:

S23B

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:

יעקב ארי'

Name English:

Yaakov Aryeh

Surname Original:

פרענקיל

Surname English:

Frenkil

Father Original:

שמעלקא

Father English:

Schmelke

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Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

06-Sivan-

Death Date:

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Primary Symbol:

crown

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

here buried
'Yaakov was a flawless and reputable man, a dweller
of tents', quick was he to be
one of the first of the ten in the house of
prayer, a pursuer of charity
and benevolence, (was) of a family respectable
and prestigious , 'of the greatest among Israel' [h]
Yaakov Aryeh Frenkil
of blessed memory, son of [h] Schmelke of blessed memory, died
first day of the festival of Shavuot 569[.]
[...]

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Stone Condition:

good; broken at bottom of 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:

[N2-3] Based on Genesis 25:26, where the characters of the twin brothers Jacob and Esau are compared.
[N3] היה is slightly abbreviated to 'הי to avoid inscribing the divine name יה.
[N4-5] To form a minyan, the minimum quorum of ten required for communal prayer.
[N6] אריה is slightly abbreviated to 'ארי to avoid inscribing the divine name יה.
[N8] The conventional transcription approach is to render this surname as Frenkil; Frenkel is the spelling by which it is usually encountered.
[N9] Schmelke is a Yiddish variant of Shmuel, often found paired as Shmuel Schmelke.
[N10] The first day of the 2-day festival of Shavuot in the Diaspora, equivalent to 6th Sivan, year unknown.

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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