Stone ID:

LVN156

Location:

NewCem

Grounded/Loose:

loose

Intact/Fragment:

intact Group:

Location X/Y:

Location GPS:

Material:

sandstone

Color: grey Dimensions W H D, cm:

Inscription Style:

incised letter

Inscription Character Height, cm:

Name Original:

נפתלי הירש

Name English:

Naftali Hirsch

Surname Original:

הערטפעלד

Surname English:

Hertfeld

Father Original:

דוד

Father English:

David

Husband Original:

Husband English:

Gender:

male

Death Date Hebrew:

4-Tevet-5685

Death Date:

1924-12-31*

Age:

Birth Date:

Profession:

Primary Symbol:

blessing hands (Kohen)

Epitaph Original:

Epitaph English:

a perfect and honest man, our teacher
Naftali Hirsch [Hert]feld
son of David(?) ...
died 4th(?) Tevet [5]685
may his soul be bound in the bond of (eternal) life

Acrostic Original:

Acrostic English:

Additional Original:

[NAF]TALI HERT[FELD]
… … …

Additional English:

[NAF]TALI HERT[FELD]
... ... ...

Stone Condition:

the stone is very rough; only parts of the epitaph are legible

Conservation:

This headstone and more than a hundred others were recovered from under the asphalt paving of vul. Hanna Barvinok southwest of the Lviv city center over several days in June 2018, in a volunteer event organized by the Sholem Aleichem Jewish Cultural Society of Lviv and the Lviv Volunteer Center. The stones were then moved to the new Jewish cemetery adjacent to the Yanivskyi Cemetery northwest of the city center, from which they were likely originally stolen during the German occupation of World War II.
For more information, see the About Lviv page on this website and Case Study 13 on the website A Guide to Jewish Cemetery Preservation in Western Ukraine.

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Recovery Date:

2018-06

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Last Revision:

2025-01-22

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