In Judith Romney Wegner's reply to Steve Orlen, she writes the following: ""Eikha" is the first word of the Hebrew text of Lamentations and means "How?" -- in context asking "How did the destruction of the temple and the city of Jerusalem come to pass?" (Not exactly the name one would expect parents to choose for their newborn daughter!)"
I would like to point out that, as unusual as it might be, there is an Israeli "short" movie about a young lass coping with the name her parents gave her "Eikha"!!!
Rachel Heller Bernstein
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