Obituaries

Lord David Young, British-Jewish politician and favorite fixer for Margaret Thatcher, dies at 90

His work with ORT, the Jewish educational and vocational training organization, caught Thatcher’s attention and led to a career advising multiple Conservative prime ministers.

Holocaust survivor and painter Frederick Terna dies at 99

The Brooklyn-based painter began to make art while imprisoned at Terezin as a young man.

Writer Tom Tugend in his Los Angeles home

Three-time war veteran and longtime JTA correspondent Tom Tugend dies at 97

Tugend enjoyed a seven-decade career in Jewish journalism.

Steven Salen, a tailor who survived the Holocaust and dressed presidents, dies at 103

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who transformed comics first as a muse and then as a feminist artist, dies at 74

Comedian Freddie Roman, who brought the Borscht Belt to Broadway, dies at 85

Michael Shafir, who played a key role in Holocaust memory in his native Romania, dies at 78

Bosnian Jews mourn Moris Albahari, one of Sarajevo’s last Ladino speakers

Henry Rosovsky, refugee from the Nazis who shaped Harvard University, dies at 95

Judah Samet was a mensch well before he survived the Tree of Life shooting

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