Obituaries

Mayer Abramowitz, rabbi to Miami’s Cuban exiles, dies at 97

“I don’t know who took me to Cuba because I never took a vacation, but it was probably God,” Abramowitz told the Miami Herald when he retired at 90.

Jules Sauer, Brazilian ‘Gemstone Hunter,’ dies at 95

A Frenchman who fled the Nazis in 1939, Sauer would establish a high-end jewelry chain and become a leading world authority in his field.

Rabbi Herman Schaalman, the oldest living Reform rabbi, dies at 100

The Munich native was selected by Rabbi Leo Baeck to come to the U.S. on scholarship in 1935 to study for the rabbinate at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati.

Brunhilde Pomsel, Joseph Goebbels’ former personal secretary, dies at 106

Stephen P. Cohen, Middle East intermediary, dies at 71

Ari Rath, celebrated journalist and former Jerusalem Post editor, dies at 92

Miriam Goldberg, editor and publisher of Intermountain Jewish News since ’72, dies at 100

Ben Cowen, Australian entrepreneur and Jewish community activist, killed in gliding accident

Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-Jewish sociologist and philosopher, dies at 91

Nat Hentoff, journalist, author, music critic and social activist, dies at 91

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