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Miss Weinstein took over from her mother as head of the Jewish community council, which represented the once 80-100,000-strong minority. A mixture of Sephardic Jews and European immigrants, in the early years of the last century they went to school and worked alongside Egyptian Muslims and Christians, mainly in Cairo and Alexandria.
The body of Carmen Weinstein is laid to rest at Cairo's Jewish cemetery in the Al-Basaten district (EPA)
While they were found in all classes of society, some only speaking Arabic, others were prominent businessmen and at least two were cabinet ministers under the last king, Farouk. Most emigrated following anti-Jewish violence and later outright persecution after Egypts wars with Israel in 1948, 1956 and 1967.
Miss Weinsteins father owned a print shop, which she and her mother, Esther, ran together after his death. She herself was educated at Cairo University and the American University. She was widowed, with no children.
In later years she became best known for promoting the restoration of the Cairo yeshiva, or school, and synagogue of Moses Maimonides, the celebrated 12th century theologian and personal physician to Saladin. It was paid for by the Egyptian government.
She also contributed to the restoration of the mock-pharaonic Chaar Hachamaim Synagogue in Downtown Cairo, where her funeral took place, and, with sadly only temporary results, the Bassatine cemetery, where she was buried.
Magda Haroun, a 62-year-old lawyer who was elected this week to replace Miss Weinstein, used the funeral to pay tribute to her predecessors efforts. I promise I will take care of the heritage of the Egyptian Jewish people and hand it over to the Egyptian people, she said, acknowledging that the community had little long-term future. The Jewish heritage is the Egyptian peoples heritage also.
She also thanked President Mohammed Morsi, Egypts new Muslim Brotherhood president, for a statement offering his condolences. She was a dedicated Egyptian who worked tirelessly to preserve Egyptian Jewish heritage and valued, above all else, living and dying in her country, Egypt, that statement said.
Mrs Haroun said, to applause from the congregation: I want to break the barriers that have been created between people from different religions and different beliefs.
Mr Morsi, like many Brotherhood leaders, has been accused of anti-semitism, referring in an interview in 2010 to Zionists as descendants of apes and pigs".
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Posted By richards on April 18, 2013
CAIRO (AP) The late leader of Egypt's dwindling and aging Jewish community was buried Thursday in one the oldest cemeteries in Egypt, the once-sprawling burial ground she tirelessly worked to restore but which has now suffered looting and is drenched in sewage water and strewn with trash.
Because of the sewage water that recently seeped up from underground, Carmen Weinstein, who died at the age of 82 in her Cairo home Saturday, was not buried near her mother Esther, but at the other end of the Jewish cemetery in the Bassatine district of Cairo.
As the community's leader for nearly a decade, Weinstein had worked quietly but persistently to preserve Jewish sites in Egypt and the memory of a once thriving community. Numbering tens of thousands in the early 20th Century, only around 60 Egyptian Jews remain in the country, mostly aging women and Jews married to Muslims or Christians and "those who choose to remain in the shadows ... Except when death comes calling," as Weinstein once wrote.
Rabbi Marc El Fassi, who held the prayers during the service, called her "wonder woman." Known as a powerful personality, she was able to push officials to restore a handful of Egyptian synagogues and the yeshiva where the 12th Century Jewish philosopher Maimonides taught, as well as private Jewish properties. She bristled at Jews abroad who treated the community as if it were dying, arguing with Jewish groups that campaigned to take some remaining Torah scrolls out of Egypt.
At a public ceremony in Cairo's downtown Gates of Heaven Synagogue, nearly 100 guests, including a handful of Egypt's surviving Jews, diplomats and Muslim and Christian Egyptians, came to pay tribute to Weinstein, then moved to the Bassatine Cemetery for the burial. The deteriorated cemetery is one of the immediate challenges facing Weinstein successor, attorney Magda Haroun, 60, who was elected to lead the community.
"I asked you to come here to see the dump we will bury her in," said Haroun sharply, addressing the media who joined the mourners at the cemetery.
The cemetery's decline mirrors the dramatic changes Egypt has undergone as its population skyrocketed and poverty grew. On the outskirts of Cairo in an area named in Arabic after the gardens that were once there, Bassatine has over the past decades grown into densely populated slum of tightly-packed redbrick apartment buildings that house poor Egyptians migrating from the countryside.
Since the late 1970s, Weinstein worked to preserve the cemetery from urban encroachment, getting a wall built and succeeding in renovating and cleaning up the ancient site, dating back to the 9th Century. She planted trees and shrubs to beautify the site.
But it has rapidly deteriorated in recent years. A wall was torn down to allow construction of a sewage system for nearby construction but the project was never finished. The wall was never restored and sewage has poured into the site. Residents have dumped trash inside the cemetery, and marble has been stripped from many tombstones.
Rabbi Andrew Baker of the Washington-based American Jewish Committee said he visited the cemetery last month with Weinstein. She confessed to him, "I never come here anymore," reflecting her disappointment at the cemetery's condition, he said.
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Posted By simmons on April 18, 2013
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