xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Sarah Piesha Usdina 's tombstone in Vishki

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SARAH PIESHA USDINA'S TOMBSTONE

 

Photo of Sarah Piesha's tombstone taken by Bruce Dumes in the Jewish cemetery of Vishki in August 2007

 

Sarah Piesha was born to Reb Moshe in 1859.She married to Nakhman Usdin born in 1857,son of Yankel . She died in 1900 at the age of 41 acccording to Avraham Malthete who made the translation below of the tombstone .

האשה
החשובה מ'
שרה פעסיא
בת ר' משה ז"ל
נפט' י"ב כסלו
שנת תרסא ל'

תנצבה

Here lies
the considered
woman, good lady
Sarah-Pessia,
daughter of Reb Moses, of blessed memory,
died 12th Kislev,
year 5661*
Let her soul be bound in the bundle of life.

Ici repose
la femme
considérée, Dame
Sarah-Pessia,
fille de Reb Moïse - de mémoire bénie -
décédée le 12 Kislev
de l’année 5661*
Que son âme soit liée au faisceau des vivants


*= mardi 4 décembre 1900 dans le calendrier grégorien (21 novembre 1900 dans le calendrier julien)..

*=tuesday december 4, 1900[according to the pre-1918 old (Julian) calendar style = november 21,1900 according to the new (Gregorian) calendar style

 

done by :

Avraham MALTHÊTE
Epigraphiste-Paléographe
en charge des collections de manuscrits hébreux
et des fonds de livres hébreux anciens

 

 

 
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