Obituaries

Velvel Pasternak, who worked to preserve Jewish musical heritage, dies at 86

The musicologist published more than 150 volumes of Jewish music in a career spanning more than half a century.

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Stanley Tigerman, Chicago architect who designed the Illinois Holocaust Museum, dies

The museum takes visitors on a journey from which there is “no turning back.”

Nechama Rivlin, wife of Israel’s president, dies at 73

She had a lung transplant three months ago from which she never recovered.

Last living survivor of Nazi death camp Sobibor dies

Murray Polner, founding and only editor of Present Tense magazine, dies at 91

Robert Bernstein, Human Rights Watch founder who chided group for anti-Israel bias, dies at 96

Rabbi Lawrence Troster, Jewish environmental activist, dies at 65

Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk, legendary author who brought Judaism into the mainstream, dies at 103

Peggy Lipton

Peggy Lipton, star of TV’s ‘The Mod Squad,’ dies at 72

Nurit Karlin, Israeli-born cartoonist who broke into a men’s club at The New Yorker, dies at 80

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