Part of a long line of cantors, he led services at the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem for 30 years and helped train the next generation.
Author: JOSEPH BERGER
Adolfo Kaminsky Dies at 97; His Forgeries Saved Thousands of Jews
His talent for creating realistic documents helped children, their parents and others escape deportation to concentration camps, and in many cases to flee Nazi-occupied territory.
A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli Writer, Dies at 85
In an oeuvre of 11 novels, three short-story collections and four plays, Mr. Yehoshua tackled a variety of narrative forms — from surrealist to historical — and delved into knotty or uncommon subjects.
Andrée Geulen, Savior of Jewish Children in Wartime, Dies at 100
A Belgian teacher, she kept them out of the hands of Nazis, hiding them in convents, monasteries and farms. After the war, she reunited many with their parents.
YIVO Institute Makes Archives of Yiddish Life Available Online
After a lengthy effort, artifacts from collections in Lithuania and New York that document Yiddish culture in Eastern Europe before World War II will be accessible to scholars and others.
Yitzhak Arad, Who Led Holocaust Study Center in Israel, Dies at 94
A survivor of the Nazis, Mr. Arad was an esteemed scholar and the longtime chairman of the Yad Vashem complex of museums and archives in Jerusalem.
Yitzhak Arad, Who Led Holocaust Study Center in Israel, Dies at 94
A survivor of the Nazis, Mr. Arad was an esteemed scholar and the longtime chairman of the Yad Vashem complex of museums and archives in Jerusalem.
Dario Gabbai, a Final Witness to Auschwitz, Is Dead at 97
He was among the last Sonderkommandos, prisoners forced by the Nazis to herd fellow inmates into the gas chambers.
Rafi Eitan, 92, Israeli Spymaster Who Caught Eichmann, Is Dead
He led the team that seized the Nazi architect of the Final Solution in Argentina and later handled the American spy Jonathan Jay Pollard.