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Remembering Aharon Appelfeld, from charnel house to whorehouse to a home in Israel

No writer captured and reclaimed the lost world of European Jewish life with as much imaginative intensity and heartfelt longing, writes novelist Thane Rosenbaum.

Aharon Appelfeld, renowned Israeli author, dies at 85

Most of the Holocaust survivor’s fiction dealt in some way with the genocide and the beginnings of the State of Israel.

Jewish families killed in Costa Rica crash remembered for passionate social justice work

The Steinbergs of Scarsdale, New York, and the Weisses of Belleair, Florida, were among 12 people killed.

Jerry Yellin, who flew the last combat mission of World War II, dies at 93

Kazimierz Piechowski, leader of daring escape from Auschwitz, dies at 98

Vera Katz, three-term mayor of Portland who escaped the Nazis, dies at 84

Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, leader of the Lithuanian haredi Orthodox community, dies at 104

Naomi Lauter, who led AIPAC efforts in San Francisco for 50 years, dies at 87

Rabbi Neil Gillman, a premier theologian of Conservative Judaism, is dead at 84

Rabbi Giuseppe Laras, a leader of postwar Italian Judaism, dies at 82

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