Obituaries

oldest living jew

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

“She didn’t smoke, she ate sensibly, she had good emotional balance and she clearly had remarkable genes,” said her youngest son.

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Holocaust author

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

The Bronx-born literature professor led the first course on Holocaust literature known to be taught at an American college or university.

Ideas

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

The Brooklyn native understood the grievances of “white ethnics,” writes a former colleague at the American Jewish Committee.

Arno Penzias.

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

Rebecca Baruch.

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

Two men dancing on a movie set.

Norman Jewison, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ director and lifelong friend of the Jews, dies at 97

Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, dean who led Yeshiva U seminary through period of growth, dies at 94

Jewish Life Stories: John Lennon’s lawyer, Michael Oren’s mom

Bernie Steinberg, a Harvard Hillel director who promoted pluralism, dies at 78

Jewish Life Stories: Hasidic filmmaker Menachem Daum, pioneering publisher Carol Hupping Fisher

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