the Old City. The Chabad synagogue of the Old City, known as Tzemach Tzedek, was built in 1858 with the support of David Sassoon, the second story and a yeshiva being added in 1879 with the support of Elias Sassoon. According to the Encyclopaedia of the Founders and the Builders of Israel, Rabbi Binyamin Yehuda, the son of Rabbi Shlomo Yehezkel Yehuda, died after a collapse in the capital of himself and his brothers meant he was no longer able to distribute alms to the poor as was his custom and "out of grief he fell asleep from which he did not arise." His sons included the biblical scholar Abraham Shalom Yahuda. Judah Family of Calcutta The mercantile branch of the family remained in India and was known as the Yehuda and subsequently when the name was anglicised during British rule, the Judah family of Calcutta. According to the historian of the Baghdadi Jewish trading diaspora Ezra Yehzkel-Shaked, one of Ezekiel Judah's sons by his second marriage, Yosef Yehuda, who remained in India, was described as the "king of the Calcutta opium exchange" and the owner of a "famed sailing vessel" which made regular voyages from India to Macao and other destinations in China. Calcutta Synagogues In terms of Ezekiel Judah's physical legacy the Calcutta synagogues of Neveh Shalom and Beth El remain standing and maintained in the city, whose Jewish community has dwindled to less than twenty people. Despite this they are regularly visited by tourists descendants of the Baghdadi Jewish community and considered a unique part of the city's heritage. Given the almost complete destruction of Jewish heritage sites in Syria and Iraq, Ben Judah has noted these age amongst "the last or our synagogues" built in the traditional Baghdadi style. Descendants Ezekiel Judah's descendants included Abraham Yahuda (1877–1951) from the Jerusalem branch and Tim Judah and his son Ben Judah from the Calcutta branch. References 1800 births 1860 deaths Iraqi Jews Talmudists