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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 5/5/2024 1:49 PM
Family Surname: Greenbaum
Country: USA
Town: Forrest Park
Date of Image: 1914

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Please translate the Hebrew letters written on this tombstone.
Thank you.

Response

5/5/2024 2:37 PM

Here lies

a respected woman

MAHLE daughter of Reb Tzvi

She passed away 11 Adar 5674

May her soul be bound up in the bond of life.
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Her name, which is Yiddish, is pronounced MAH-leh

‘Reb’ is an honorific; it does not mean rabbi.

Her father’s name was Tzvi. This is Hebrew for deer. The Yiddish word for deer is Hirsh. Because of this, some men with the Hebrew name Tzvi have a secular name that sounds similar to Hirsh, such as Harry, Harold, Herbert, etc.

5/6/2024 12:01 AM

The Hebrew spelling can also simply be an attempt to write Mollie, in the Ashkenazi pronunciation.

The letter א after a consonant is usually there to indicate a "o" sound.

I want to add that I thought of Mollie before I saw her English name.
I've never heard of a Yiddish Mahle.

That said, it's quite possible that Mollie's original Hebrew name was Malka (Malkeh in Yiddish).

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