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Submitted by Pauline Shapiro

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 9/21/2025 3:15 PM
Family Surname: Shenfield
Country: USA
Town: Warsaw and Malden, MA, US
Date of Image: Sept 2025
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Documenting cemetery for JOWBR. Would like to make sure I reference her husband, Elimelech Shenfield of Warsaw correctly here. The language of the stone leads me to think they were noteworthy, and I am unsure of the prefix before his name [caf, hay?] Note: I have seen an older photo of this headstone before the repair failed. Thank you for any insights.

Edited to say, please if you have information on that abbreviation, I will need to know the actual words it abbreviates - thank you.

..and Shana Tova!

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9/21/2025 5:18 PM Caf Hay is correct. According to my source is an abbreviation for "His honor the rabbi"



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