This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Leopold Kozlowski, the last active musician to have grown up playing traditional Jewish music in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust, died March 12 in Krakow at the age of 100. A world-renowned expert on Jewish music and a teacher who trained generations of klezmer musicians and Yiddish…
On this day, 25 years ago, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president. In honor of that anniversary, we are revisiting Richard Goldstone’s essay that he wrote on the occasion of Mandela’s passing in 2013. Nelson Mandela has become a beloved icon for all of South Africa, and no less for its…
Carol Channing, a Broadway legend who racked up more than 5,000 lifetime performances, including 4,500 as the title character — Dolly Levi — of the musical “Hello, Dolly!” died Tuesday at her California home. She was 97. Her death came after suffering two strokes last year, the New York Times reported. Channing was world famous…
Nancy Schwartz Sternoff died on January 12, 2019 in New York, NY after a brave battle with pancreatic cancer. An exceptional organizational strategist, fundraiser, and feminist leader, Nancy earned an M.A. in American Literature from NYU and a B.A. Summa Cum Laude from Syracuse University. Born in North Carolina, Nancy raised her children in Seattle….
Edgar Hilsenrath, a German Holocaust survivor and novelist celebrated for his trenchant and satirical books on genocide and life in the Jewish ghetto, passed away Sunday at a hospital in Wittlich, Germany. He was 92. Hilsenrath was born April 2, 1926 in Liepzig to David Hilsenrath, a furrier, and Anna Hilsenrath, née Honigsberg. As he…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Tzvika Levy, known as the “father of lone soldiers,” has died. Levy, who received the Israel Prize for Life Achievement last year for his work advocating for lone soldiers and the families of killed Israeli soldiers, died on Saturday at the age of 70. He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS,…
(JTA) — Georges Loinger, a member of the French Resistance during World War II who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis, has died. Loinger died on Friday in Paris at the age of 108, France’s Holocaust Memorial Foundation confirmed on its website. Loinger, who was Jewish but looked Aryan with his blonde hair…
Leon Lederman, a physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on subatomic particles, died Wednesday, the Associated Press reported. He was 96. Lederman, who directed the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory from 1978 to 1989, invented the term “God particle” and wrote a book by the same name. It refers to a…
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