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Submitted by Deborah S Friedman

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 6/7/2026 4:47 PM
Family Surname: unk
Country: Ukraine
Town: Kopaihorod
Date of Image: circa 1990
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I have a series of photos of gravestones I took when I traveled to Kopaihorod in the early 1990s. Please excuse the amateur quality of them. On some I am aware that only part of the inscription is visible. Please translate the Hebrew and or Russian as appropriate. Many thanks.

A03

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6/7/2026 5:25 PM This is the Hebrew:

Here lies (two characters, very small and faint)
An important man
Shmuel son of Yisroel
Yanavitsch
6/7/2026 7:05 PM Here lies

An honored man, respected,

Reb SHMUEL son of Reb Yisrael

Yanovitch

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

Shmuel is Hebrew for Samuel.

Yisrael is Hebrew for Israel.

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