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Submitted by Robert Gilbert

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Category: Translation - Tombstone Approval Date: 3/29/2026 1:55 PM Family Surname:	Click the picture to enlarge	I'm trying to determine my great-uncle's Hebrew name. Can someone translate this headstone? Thanks.

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3/29/2026 3:12 PM

Here lies

AVRAHAM son of Reb Yitzchak Goldberg

He passed away on the fourth day of the week, 23 Kislev

of the year 5679

May his soul be bound up in the bond of life.
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Avraham is Hebrew for Abraham.

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

Yitzchak is Hebrew for Isaac.

The Jewish "fourth day of the week" begins at sunset on Tuesday and ends at sunset on Wednesday.

There is a discrepancy between the secular and Jewish years of death.

The 23rd of Kislev, 5679, began at sunset on November 26th, 1918, and ended at sunset on the 27th. The secular year on the stone is 1919.

In 1919, the 23rd of Kislev was not on a Wednesday, but on a Monday. Therefore, I am concluding that the correct year was 1918.

(During most of the year, the last digits in the secular and religious years match. However, at Rosh Hashanah, the religious year advances.)

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