Obituaries

20 Jewish celebrities who died in 2023

From movie stars to politicians to Nobel Prize winners.

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The klezmer world will remember the ‘youngest of the old guys’

Musicians and fans will pay tribute to Brooklyn’s Pete Sokolow, who died in 2022, and his role as a generational bridge builder.

A German Jewish man who escaped the Holocaust returns to German Parliament as a guest speaker

Guy Stern, WWII ‘Ritchie Boy’ who became renowned Holocaust scholar, dies at 101

As a refugee-turned-intelligence operative, Stern grilled Germans in their native tongue.

Neil Drossman, ad writer famous for his wit and wordplay, dies at 83

Rabbi Martin Rozenberg, scholar who helped found Reform’s Camp Harlam, is dead at 95

David Ellenson was my rabbi. I can’t believe we won’t learn from him anymore.

Rabbi David Ellenson dies; former president of Reform seminary and widely admired mentor was 76

Norman Lear, Jewish creator of pioneering TV comedies including ‘All in the Family,’ dies at 101

Rabbi Laurie Phillips, founder of a Manhattan ‘synagogue without walls,’ dies at 55

Shlomo Avineri, dovish Israeli political philosopher and public intellectual, dies at 90

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