Obituaries

Jewish Life Stories: A much-banned kids’ book author, a neo-Hasidic Deadhead, the Jewish father of the artificial Christmas tree

Moshe Pesach Geller, a Bronx-born teacher who spread the gospel of the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia with nearly equal fervor, died in Israel on Feb. 12.

Rabbi Jules Harlow, editor of the prayer book used in Conservative synagogues for a quarter century, dies at 92

Modest but significant changes marked the publication of “Sim Shalom” in 1985.

Robert Chazan, 87, NYU scholar of medieval Jewry who helped build field of Jewish studies

When he earned his doctorate in 1967, Chazan led an effort to expand Jewish studies to institutions “all over the country.”

Nina Gottlieb, Holocaust survivor who told her story in an award-winning documentary, dies at 91

Jewish Life Stories: A nurse who met Churchill, a rabbi who warned about the Internet

Pearl Berg, world’s oldest Jewish person and 9th-oldest overall, dies at 114

Lawrence Langer, renowned scholar of Holocaust testimony, dies at 94

Remembering Irving Levine, an AJC official who saw the future of identity politics

Jewish Life Stories: The Nobelist who confirmed the Big Bang, the ‘Bagel Queen’ of Atlanta

Jewish Life Stories: A lone soldier, the voice of the Shangri-Las, two giants of American health care

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