Evelyn Kozak

Evelyn Kozak (née Jacobson) (born August 14, 1899) is an American supercentenarian who at the age of 125 years, 13 days is the world's oldest living Jewish person, and the seventh oldest living person in the world. She is also the oldest verified Jewish person in history ever since surpassing fellow American Adelheid Kirschbaum's age of 113 years and 83 days on November 6, 2012. She is the last surviving Jew born in the 1800s.

Biography
Evelyn Kozak was born in the Lower East Side of New York City on August 14, 1899. Her parents, Katie and Isaac Jacobson, had nine children. She grew up working for her parents in the paper box company they owned.

She moved to Miami, Florida after she got married. She lived and worked there for over fifty years as the operator of a motel on Miami Beach. She was living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania since the age of ninety. Since she was 111, she has been living in the Kensington section of Brooklyn with her granddaughter's, Brucha Weisberger's, family.