Obituaries

Holocaust survivor who became a bat mitzvah at 91 dies in Buenos Aires

Eugenia Unger was a founding member of the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires.

By Juan Melamed January 4, 2024 4:59 pm

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Israeli soldier Amichai Oster, son of former JTA writer and editor, is killed in Gaza

The 24-year-old reservist rushed back to Israel from the United States after Oct. 7.

January 2, 2024 1:42 pm

Remembering Misha Avramoff, a champion of Jewish education and New York’s poor

The longtime co-director of Project Ezra on the Lower East Side died one year ago, having left an enormous legacy.

January 1, 2024 11:00 am

Lives Lived: Notable New Yorkers who died in 2023

By Julia Gergely December 28, 2023 7:43 pm

Herb Kohl, former Jewish senator from Wisconsin and Milwaukee Bucks owner, dies at 88

By Ron Kampeas December 28, 2023 3:36 pm

Leader of Lebanon’s tiny Jewish community dies at 80

By Andrew Silow-Carroll December 27, 2023 11:55 am

Ruth Seymour

Ruth Seymour, public radio pioneer devoted to Jewish culture, dies at 88

By Jon Kalish December 26, 2023 11:43 am

20 Jewish celebrities who died in 2023

By Gabe Friedman December 19, 2023 10:13 am

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

By Jon Kalish December 18, 2023 11:35 am

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

By Andrew Lapin December 13, 2023 5:41 pm

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