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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 5/11/2025 12:51 PM
Family Surname: Lipman and Khlavnovitz
Country: USA
Town: Pittsburg
Date of Image: 1950

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Looking for a translation of the right side please. I suspect that this person was born last name Khlavnovitz, father either Shmuel or Shmuilo or Shimsel. Any information on her maiden name or father's name would be most helpful. Thanks!

Response

5/11/2025 1:58 PM

Unfortunately, a woman's maiden name rarely appears in the Hebrew text on her tombstone.

Her Hebrew name was Miriam.

Her father was Shmuel [SHMOO-ayl], which is Hebrew for Samuel.

If you'd like a complete translation of all of the text, please let me know.

5/11/2025 7:15 PM

Here is the full translation, as requested:
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Here lies

our mother and my wife

MIRIAM daughter of Reb Shmuel

A woman who feared G-d

Doing good deeds all of her days

She passed away 6 Adar 5710

May her soul be bound up in the bond of life.
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Miriam [MIR-yam] is a Biblical name. She was the sister of Moses and Aaron.

'Reb' is an honorific; it does not mean rabbi.

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