Sieniawa - 20 century
Today: Poland, in 1918 - 1939 Poland. Pre 1914 Austro Hungary, pre 1795 Poland
Date: 2008
Photograph: Tomek Wisniewski
Email: bagnowka@yahoo.pl
Here lies
feared God in complete earnest since his youth, poured his heart with honesty and
spoke in a pleasant voice, the wealth of his good deeds will be told for eternity,
settled many arguments with wise words, left a generation of honest and righteous for eternity, supported his family with the labor of his hands and served
God with faith and integrity, negotiated with honesty and trust all of his days, was
righteous in his service to the day he was buried, his hands supported the poor
the widows and the orphans, was modest and wise in his ways
an offspring of a priesthood stock whose souls are high in the heavens
our teacher the rabbi Isachar Dov son of Yosef [Joseph] Haim [Chaim]
HaCohen May the memory of the righteous be of a blessing
grandson of the great rabbi our teacher and rabbi Tzvi HaCohen of blessed
memory president of the court of the community of Sieniawa died
5 Adar [5 March 1911] 5671 by the abbreviated era May his soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life Translated by Sara Mages (smages@comcast.net)
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