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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 2/4/2026 3:42 PM
Family Surname: Press
Country: USA
Town: Erie PA

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Please translate David Press' stone. He was the brother of my great grandmother, Rachel Leah Press Schneider. If the name of his father is within the inscription, my family and I will know the name of my great great grandfather. Thank you!

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2/4/2026 6:54 PM

Our dear father, DAVID BARUCH [?] son of Reb

Yehuda Lowb Press. He passed away 11

Adar of the year 5692. May his soul be bound up in the bond of life.

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The deceased and his father each had 'double' names. I am not completely sure of the second part of David's name. I have not encountered this particular spelling before. The closest 'match' that I can think of is Baruch, which means blessed. Some men with the name Baruch have a secular name of Benedict or similar.

The second part of his father's name is also one that I have not seen before. It reads as "Lowb", which is not wrong, just different. There is a much more common double name: Yehuda Layb. Yehudah is Hebrew for Judah, and Layb is Yiddish for lion. The symbol for the tribe of Judah was a lion. Therefore, some men with either of these names have a secular name related to lion, such as Leo, Leonard, etc. (Lowb might be a more "German"-like version of the Yiddish name Layb).

Please keep in mind that there are no rules for 'matching' Jewish and secular names, so the father's secular name might have been something completely different.

There is some ambiguity in the date of death. During a Jewish leap year, the standard 12th month, Adar, is replaced by two months, Adar I and Adar II. The year 5692 was a leap year, but the stone does not tell the specific Adar. (There is a slight possibility that the word that I have read as 'year' was actually an engraving error, and the word was meant to be 'the second'. Do you know the date of death? If it was in Adar I: The 11th of Adar I corresponds to February 17/18 1932. If it was in Adar II: The 11th of Adar II corresponds to March 18/19.

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