Obituaries

jewish Paul Auster

Jewish novelist Paul Auster, bard of Brooklyn, dies at 77

His “New York Trilogy” in the 1980s and ’90s vaulted him into the front ranks of American novelists.

By Andrew Silow-Carroll May 1, 2024 12:17 pm

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Jerome Rothenberg, Bronx-born poet whose ‘ethnopoetics’ inspired scholars and rock stars, dies at 92

In addition to his magnum opus, “Technicians of the Sacred,” Rothenberg wrote books that explored his Jewish identity.

April 29, 2024 10:01 am

Jewish Life Stories: A pioneering woman comic book artist, a British children’s book author who raised three Israeli sons

“As a refugee one never loses a certain sense of insecurity,” the journalist Hella Pick told the BBC.

April 23, 2024 2:00 pm

Rabbi Albert Thaler, founding director of Ramah Nyack day camp, dies at 91

By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 22, 2024 4:19 pm

The Upper West Side mourns Tom Weiss, a congressman’s son and ‘master of chesed’

By Julia Gergely April 18, 2024 5:06 pm

Ken Holtzman

Ken Holtzman, winningest Jewish pitcher in MLB history, dies at 78

By Jacob Gurvis April 15, 2024 9:15 pm

Liron Petrushka (left), Naomi Petrushka (center)

Jewish Life Stories: A tech couple killed in a private plane crash, a Holocaust survivor who arrested a top Nazi

By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 10, 2024 5:16 pm

Amy Ettinger, who inspired readers with her life-affirming essays on dying, succumbs to cancer at 49

By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 8, 2024 4:41 pm

Jewish Life Stories: A legendary Washington hostess and peacemaker, and an Israeli champion of civil rights

By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 3, 2024 11:15 am

Bert Pogrebin.

Bert Pogrebin, attorney and partner to leading feminist Letty Cottin Pogrebin, dies at 89

By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 1, 2024 5:10 pm

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