Wednesday, October 28th 2026 |
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ERNEST GUNTHER HOLZMANN, an accomplished electrical engineering researcher, who came to the New Orleans area eight years ago, died on August 20 of pancreatic cancer. He was 92.
Professionally he worked as an electrical engineer researcher for numerous large corporations...
RALPH JACOB SCHWARTZ, a nurse who worked at various local nursing homes, died on Saturday, August 16, of heart failure. He was 58.
A native of New Orleans, Schwartz had been working in nursing since 2004 and had worked for...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Leonard Fein, a veteran Jewish activist and writer, has died at 80. Fein died Thursday morning, announced the Forward newspaper, where he was a longtime columnist.
A prominent voice of Jewish liberalism and left-wing Zionism, Fein...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Lauren Bacall, a film legend best known for her sultry onscreen presence and her Hollywood romance with actor Humphrey Bogart, has died.
Bacall, the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Romania,...
LORE MARIE BAER MAY MENDLER, a housewife and mother who, along with her family successfully fled the Nazis as a young lady and came to New Orleans to live, died in Columbus, OH on Sunday, August 10, 2014. She was...
ATHENS, Greece (JTA) — Rabbi Yaacov Arar, who served as the chief rabbi of Athens for over four decades, has died.Arar died July 31 in Israel, according to the Athens Jewish Community. He was 76.
(JTA) — Writer Bel Kaufman, granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, has died. Kaufman, author of the 1965 hit novel “Up the Down Staircase,” died Friday in Manhattan at the age of 103. The novel was based on her experienced...Writer Bel Kaufman dies at 103
FRED BRONFIN, a New Orleans native, attorney, and longtime community leader, died on Wednesday, July 23 at the age of 95.
Bronfin actively practiced law for over 45 years with areas of specialty that ranged from estate planning to corporate...
(JTA) – The Jewish actor and director Szymon Szurmiej, the longtime head of Poland’s State Jewish Theatre, has died.
Szurmiej, a leading Jewish figure for years during the post-Holocaust communist era, died Wednesday in Warsaw. He was 91.
He survived...
(JTA) — Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Prize-winning South African chronicler of apartheid and its aftermath, has died.
Gordimer, 90, died Sunday at home in Johannesburg, a statement from her family said, according to the New York Times.
Born in 1923...
