Salvaging a Pakistani-Jewish Identity
by Erica Lyons for AsianJewishLife.org
Karachi’s Magen Shalom Synagogue was demolished in July 1988, to make way for
the Madiha Square shopping mall. The majority of Pakistan’s Jewish community had already dwindled and left this now hostile environment and the remaining Jews there live in virtual
anonymity. While the history of the
community has been documented, there are few remaining monuments. There is perhaps though one seemingly unlikely champion for this lost community, Faisal Benkhal. He now chooses to be identified by the adopted name Fishel and he has taken on the task of attempting to preserve, clean and restore the Jewish cemetery in Mewah Shah Karachi.
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