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Erica Jesselson, a major philanthropist for Jewish causes, died at 86. Jesselson died Wednesday at her home in New York City. Born in Vienna in 1922, she escaped to England on the Kindertransport. Jesselson and her late husband, Ludwig, were major benefactors of Yeshiva University in New York City, founding and endowing the university museum. […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315