Jewish Cemeteries - Łuków - today
Łuków

Today: Poland, in 1918 - 1939 Poland. Pre 1914 Russia, pre 1795 Poland
Date: 2007
Photograph: Tomasz Wisniewski
Email: bagnowka@yahoo.pl

"A tombstone of a modest and upright woman, deceased. Szfira daughter of our teacher, the Rabbi Jehoszua of blessed memory. She died 20th Shevet 5676 as the abbreviated era. May her soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life." [partially preserved eulogy follows.] Translated by Dr. Heidi M. Szpek, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA 98926 (szpekh@cwu.edu). Translation of inscriptions is a work in progress and may be updated periodically. Copyright of translations is held by the translator(s) as noted. All are welcome to benefit from these translations but full reproduction is not permitted without written permission of the translator(s).


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