Chevra haChachamot on Nostr: May her memory be for a blessing. Queenie Hallegua, second-to-last Jewish resident of ...
May her memory be for a blessing.
Queenie Hallegua, second-to-last Jewish resident of historic Indian Jewish community, dies at 89
By Andrew Silow-Carroll August 12, 2024
"...Four years ago, when a Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent visited Kochi, India, researcher Shalva Weil said only two Jews were still living in Jew Town, a vibrant community where perhaps 3,000 Jews lived at its peak in the 1950s.
On Sunday, one of those two survivors died: Newspapers in India reported that Queenie Hallegua, the last of the Paradesi, or “foreign,” Jewish women in Kochi, died at age 89, leaving her nephew Keith Hallegua as the last Jew in Kochi.
Queenie Hallegua was the warden and managing trustee of the Paradesi Synagogue, a 450-year-old landmark.."
https://www.jta.org/2024/08/12/obituaries/queenie-hallegua-second-to-last-jewish-resident-of-historic-indian-jewish-community-dies-at-89
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Queenie Hallegua, second-to-last Jewish resident of historic Indian Jewish community, dies at 89
By Andrew Silow-Carroll August 12, 2024
"...Four years ago, when a Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent visited Kochi, India, researcher Shalva Weil said only two Jews were still living in Jew Town, a vibrant community where perhaps 3,000 Jews lived at its peak in the 1950s.
On Sunday, one of those two survivors died: Newspapers in India reported that Queenie Hallegua, the last of the Paradesi, or “foreign,” Jewish women in Kochi, died at age 89, leaving her nephew Keith Hallegua as the last Jew in Kochi.
Queenie Hallegua was the warden and managing trustee of the Paradesi Synagogue, a 450-year-old landmark.."
https://www.jta.org/2024/08/12/obituaries/queenie-hallegua-second-to-last-jewish-resident-of-historic-indian-jewish-community-dies-at-89
#Mazeldon #Jewniverse #JewishWomen #Jewish #Judaism