Obituaries

Szymon Szurmiej, Jewish actor and Polish leader, dies

The Jewish actor and director Szymon Szurmiej, longtime head of Poland’s State Jewish Theatre, has died.

Nadine Gordimer, chronicler of South Africa, dies at 90

Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Prize-winning South African chronicler of apartheid and its aftermath, has died.

Conductor Lorin Maazel dies at 84

Conductor Lorin Maazel, a prodigy who served as music director of the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Vienna State Opera, has died.

David Azrieli, Montreal developer with wide holdings in Israel, dies

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi brought old world gravitas to New Age Judaism

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, father of Jewish Renewal, dies

Moise Safra, billionaire philanthropist, dies at 79

World’s oldest man dies two months after achieving title

Body of missing Holocaust scholar Robert Kuwalek is found

Israel Prize-winning actress Hanna Maron dies at 90

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