Obituaries

Jan Kulczyk, a major funder of Poland’s Jewish museum, dies

His $5.5 million gift to the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, despite not being Jewish, was the largest single grant from a private donor.

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Samuel Pisar, Holocaust survivor who was adviser to JFK, dies

Pisar became a member of President Kennedy’s economic and foreign policy task force in 1960, and also served as an adviser to the State Department.

Author E.L Doctorow dies at 84

Doctorow won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.

Theodore Bikel, Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ dies at 91

Pilot Louis Lenart, ‘The Man Who Saved Tel Aviv,’ dies at 94

Burt Shavitz, Jewish co-founder of Burt’s Bees, dies at 80

Nicholas Winton, Kindertransport organizer known as ‘British Schindler,’ dies at 106

Ron Moody, Jewish actor best known for playing Fagin, dies at 91

Avi Beker, former World Jewish Congress secretary-general, dies

Rochelle Shoretz, whose cancer battle inspired her activism, dies at 42

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