Obituaries

Velvel Pasternak, who worked to preserve Jewish musical heritage, dies at 86

The musicologist published more than 150 volumes of Jewish music in a career spanning more than half a century.

By Marcy Oster June 12, 2019 7:13 am

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Stanley Tigerman, Chicago architect who designed the Illinois Holocaust Museum, dies

The museum takes visitors on a journey from which there is “no turning back.”

June 5, 2019 12:34 pm

Nechama Rivlin, wife of Israel’s president, dies at 73

She had a lung transplant three months ago from which she never recovered.

June 4, 2019 6:56 am

Last living survivor of Nazi death camp Sobibor dies

By Marcy Oster June 3, 2019 7:19 am

Murray Polner, founding and only editor of Present Tense magazine, dies at 91

By Marcy Oster June 2, 2019 4:10 pm

Robert Bernstein, Human Rights Watch founder who chided group for anti-Israel bias, dies at 96

By Marcy Oster May 29, 2019 4:29 pm

Rabbi Lawrence Troster, Jewish environmental activist, dies at 65

By Josefin Dolsten May 24, 2019 12:25 pm

Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk, legendary author who brought Judaism into the mainstream, dies at 103

By RACHEL GORDAN May 17, 2019 1:32 pm

Peggy Lipton

Peggy Lipton, star of TV’s ‘The Mod Squad,’ dies at 72

By JTA Staff May 13, 2019 12:23 pm

Nurit Karlin, Israeli-born cartoonist who broke into a men’s club at The New Yorker, dies at 80

By JTA Staff May 8, 2019 5:13 pm

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