Obituaries

Anton Yelchin, Russian-Jewish ‘Star Trek’ actor, crushed to death by own car at 27

Yelchin, who will appear in a "Star Trek" film to be released next month, was killed by his car as it rolled down his driveway.

Boris Schnaiderman, Brazil’s pioneering Russian literature translator, dies at 99

A translator, writer and essayist, Schnaiderman translated great Russian authors including Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gorky and Mayakovsky from their original Russian.

Morley Safer, award-winning ’60 Minutes’ correspondent, dies at 84

Safer as a reporter helped turn American public opinion against the Vietnam War with his coverage showing U.S. atrocities.

Rabbi Morton Leifman, longtime dean of JTS cantors’ school, dies at 89

Daniel Aaron, pioneer of American studies who taught JFK, dies at 103

Ohio Jewish leader cited by John Kasich for Holocaust memorial role dies at 68

K-tel founder Philip Kives, farm boy who pioneered the infomercial, dies at 87

Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, dies at 93

Frederick Mayer, German Jew-turned US spy against the Nazis, dies at 94

Doris Roberts, 4-time Emmy winner from ‘Everybody Loves Raymond,’ dies

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