Friday, November 30, 2018

Odds and ends

The Jews of Sri Lanka - email from Nihal Gooneratne
http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2018/11/25/galilee-galle-ancient-jewish-connection

Philip Veersingam

4:29 AM (2 minutes ago)
to Nihal
Nihal,
Thanks for the article. Prof. Ranasinghe's wife Anne was Jewish. She was sent off to England from Germany when Hitler came to power. Her entire family died in the Holocaust. She became a famous writer and poetess of Sri Lanka.There is a record by Greek writers of a Synagogue in the ancient port  of Mannar where a few Jews were resident, at the beginning of the Present Era.
Philip