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Joseph
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LOT11210: In Europe you won’t find Hungarian or Polish on chareidish matzeivos. Loshon Kodesh only. Not even secular dates or years. America was more modern, especially prewar America before the Chareidim came here in numbers.

Also see laskern’s excellent points on this.