Mrs. J. Finsi

Judith Finzi, a member of congregation Nidhe Israel in Barbados and “Superintendent” (Principal) of the Barbados Jewish Sunday School,
Shangara Lemud around 1844. You can read her report that appeared in Isaac Leeser’s The Occident and American Jewish Advocate. She passed away in Philadelphia on the fourth day of Passover, 1885. She was 68 years old. Her husband was Abraham Finzi and her father was Moses Cohen D’Azevedo, whose receipt book is in American Jewish Historical Society.

Gravestone of Judith Finzi, Courtesy FindaGrave

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