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Submitted by Ruth Christine Clarke

Information Picture Question
Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 9/8/2021 12:18 PM
Family Surname: Caplan, Rose Appell
Country: USA
Town: Wallingford, CT
Date of Image: Aug 2021
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I would like a translation of the Hebrew inscription. Thank you.

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9/8/2021 7:13 PM RACHEL daughter of Reb Yechiel the Levite

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

Her name would be pronounced either RAW-chel (the standard Ashkenazic pronunciation) or RAH-chel (the Sephardic -- or modern Israelis -- pronunciation.

The 'ch' is pronounced as in Chanukah.

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