Obituaries

Claude Lanzmann, filmmaker behind famed Holocaust documentary ‘Shoah,’ dies at 92

The French Jew's exhaustive focus on survivor testimony changed the way the genocide was depicted on screen and in collective memory.

Charles Krauthammer, conservative columnist who fiercely defended Israel, is dead at 68

The Pulitizer Prize-winner wrote earlier this month that he had an aggressive form of cancer and had weeks to live.

Charles Krauthammer says he has weeks to live

"I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended," the dean of neoconservative columnists said in a farewell note.

Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef and TV host, is dead at 61

LGBT activist Connie Kurtz, who won equal rights for gay New Yorkers, dies at 81

Elaine Holstein, last surviving parent of the four Kent State shooting victims, dies at 96

Jackie Gothard, who led rebuilding of New Orleans congregation after Hurricane Katrina, has died

Philip Roth, enfant terrible turned peerless chronicler of American Jewish life, is dead at 85

Bernard Lewis, a leading Middle Eastern and Oriental studies scholar, dies at 101

Shoshana Cardin, Jewish leader who broke multiple glass ceilings, is dead at 91

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