The longtime top lox slicer at one of America’s Jewish eating landmarks died Saturday at the age of 86. Sam Cohen, who worked behind the counter at Zabar’s in Manhattan for decades, was an active Zionist in Poland before he survived a Nazi concentration camp and immigrated to the United States.
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