Gift of the Ioffe, Yoffe and Indenbaum families

Id no. 2006.A.158, Document

circa 1987, Russia, Petrograd, Leningrad, St. Petersburg

Subject(s):  Ritual, Yahrzeit

The Hebrew name of Tsipa Abramovna Ioffe (nee Baranovskaya), "Tsipa bat harav Avraham" along with the Hebrew date of her death, is noted on this card in Russian and Hebrew. Close family members recite kaddish (the mourner's prayer) on the Yarzheit (anniversary of the death) of a loved one.