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Submitted by Lewis Goidell

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 4/15/2026 4:08 PM
Family Surname: Goidel
Country: USA
Town: Flushing, NY
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I would like to know the translation of the Hebrew on the headstone, hopefully providing parents' names and any other information. This image was taken from Findagrave.com; Hermine Goidel is buried in Mt. Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, Queens, NY.

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On  Response 
4/15/2026 4:32 PM Here lies

the respected woman, Mrs.

HINDA

daughter of Reb Levi the Cohen

She passed away 5 Nisan 5681

May her soul be bound up in the bond of life.
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Reb is an honorific; it does not mean rabbi.

Her father was a Cohen, a member of the priestly tribe that traces back, son to father, to the first Cohen, Moses' brother Aaron.

The 5th of Nisan, 5681, began at sunset on April 12th,1921, and ended at sunset on the 13th. The secular date on the stone is the 12th, which would indicate that she passed away between sunset and midnight of that date.

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