In December 1976, thanks to my therapy experience with young adult children of Holocaust survivors, I found myself attending a workshop with Dr. Henry Krystal, the psychoanalyst who virtually created trauma therapy as a specialized field. I knew, of course, that Krystal was himself a Holocaust survivor and that he had initiated the psychoanalytic study…
Henry Krystal, a concentration camp survivor and Holocaust trauma expert, died on Oct. 8th at the age of 90. Krystal, a psychiatrist whose research focused on former concentration camp inmates, passed away at his home in Bloomfield, Michigan from complications caused by Parkinson’s disease, the New York Times reported. He is survived by his wife,…
Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, a daughter of Holocaust survivors known for her experimental films that closely examined women’s lives, has died in Paris. She was 65. French media reported that Akerman committed suicide. The date and cause are not yet known, according to the New York Times. Her parents were Polish Holocaust survivors, and her…
You can either thank or blame Daniel Thompson for creating the bagel machine. Thompson, who died this week at age 94, helped take the bagel mainstream with a contraption that could manufacture hundreds of bagels an hour. British-born, Thompson was himself the son of a Jewish baker. But in 1963, his invention fell into the…
Robert Wistrich, a leading scholar of anti-Semitism and its history, has died. Wistrich, the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the head of the University’s Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, died of a heart attack on Tuesday evening in Rome at the age…
Gene Sosin, a former director of broadcasting for Radio Liberty, has died. Sosin died earlier this month at his home in White Plains, New York. He was 93. He spent 33 years at Radio Liberty serving in various posts. Sosin also was a writer, lecturer and specialist in Soviet affairs. Sosin earned an undergraduate degree…
Rabbi Moshe Levinger, a founder of the settlement movement and the spiritual leader of the Jewish community of Hebron, has died. Levinger, who was convicted of killing a Palestinian when he fired into a crowd in 1988, died on Saturday at the age of 80, after recent health problems and complications from a stroke seven…
Josh Ozersky in 2013 in an episode of Ozersky.tv. (Reuters) – Josh Ozersky, an award-winning food critic who preached the wonders of eating meat and founded the Meatopia outdoor food festival, has died in Chicago at age 47. Ozersky was found dead on Monday in a room in Chicago’s Conrad Hotel, the Cook County Medical…
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