Rebecca Reuben, 1889-1957 - Scholar, Educationist, Community Leader 1889-1957 / In 1905, Rebecca Reuben became the first woman to top the prestigious Matriculation examination of the University of Bombay. She belonged to the Bene Israel community that had settled, for centuries, in the Kolaba District (Raigad today) of Maharashtra, Western India. After completing her BA in history and Hebrew she received teachers' training in the UK. This book records her contribution in the field of education and for the upliftment of the Bene Israel, a small religious minority in India. Using such sources as government records, personal letters, memoirs, her own published and unpublished writings and illustrated with visual material, it gives to readers the picture of an exceptional woman who was an educationalist and a visionary.
Rebecca Reuben was one of the leading lights of the small community of Jews, who call themselves the Bene Israel (sons of Israel) found in the Western region of Maharashtra, originally from the Konan belt! "hat she was no ordinary #erson is to be noted as she was the grand daughter of Rebecca and $braham %amuel &agavar and he, her maternal grandfather was the first graduate of the Community who had studied engineering in Poona and got the degree in 1872, the next batch of
graduates being about twelve
years later/
