Obituaries

Adolf Burger, last of ‘Hitler’s counterfeiters,’ dies at 99

The Austrian-German film "The Counterfeiters," based on Burger's memoirs, won the 2007 Academy Award for best foreign language film.

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Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker, composer of 500 Hasidic melodies, dies at 91

Itzhak Perlman recorded some of his works and Shenker reportedly influenced the music of Shlomo Carlebach.

Cuba’s Fidel Castro is dead at 90

His 49-year rule was marked by an anti-Israel stance to match his deep antagonism to the United States and the West.

One Ruth Gruber says goodbye to another

5 of Leonard Cohen’s most Jewish songs

Leonard Cohen, whose Jewish-infused poetry and songs inspired generations, is dead at 82

How Jacob Neusner brought Jewish studies into the mainstream

Jacob Neusner, influential scholar of rabbinic Judaism, dies at 84

Biden, remembering Peres, pleads for triumph of tolerance over bigotry

Gordon Davidson, the ‘Moses’ of LA’s theater scene, is dead at 83

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