Obituaries

Philanthropist Larry Phillips, AJWS co-founder, dies

Phillips joined the board of an international relief organization but felt isolated as the only Jewish trustee, which led him to found a Jewish organization to undertake humanitarian relief efforts.

Oliver Sacks, neurologist and ‘Awakenings’ author, dies at 82

“Awakenings,” about a group of patients with encephalitis, was turned into a popular film starring Robert De Niro and the late Robin Williams.

Gerald Bubis, Jewish communal service pioneer, dies at 91

Bubis established the School of Jewish Communal Service, now the Zelikow School of Jewish Nonprofit Management, at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s Los Angeles campus in 1968.

Goldie Steinberg, reportedly the world’s oldest Jewish person, dies at 114

Orna Porat, grande dame of Israeli theater, dies at 91

Chief rabbi of Budapest, Robert Deutsch, dies at 59

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

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

Author E.L Doctorow dies at 84

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

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