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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1991

15 stories in Sydney's papers

Life and Times Death of a cockroach

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 18 January 1991 · page 20

MAVE YOU noticed how arrogant cockroaches are getting. Cocky, in fact. Big and cocky. Now people did say before we moved…

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Obituary Don Elder

Tribune · Wednesday 30 January 1991 · page 11

One of the largest gatherings in recent years took place on January 7 at a funeral service for comrade Don Elder who…

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Obituary Kev Donovan

Tribune · Wednesday 6 February 1991 · page 11

The progressive movement lost a thoughtful and committed comrade when Kev Donovan died on January 15…

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Obituary

Tribune · Wednesday 20 February 1991 · page 2

Fred Olive, a veteran communist, died last Wednesday at the age of 88. Tribune extends its condolences to Win and…

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Obituary Donna-Marie Burns

Tribune · Wednesday 20 February 1991 · page 11

Donna was a young woman, highly active in anti-apartheid work and a project officer for APHEDA, the…

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Obituary Fred Olive

Tribune · Wednesday 27 February 1991 · page 11

Fred Olive died in Balmain hospital on February 13 at the age of 88 years. He had suffered severe respiratory…

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Obituary Joyce McCallum

Tribune · Wednesday 13 March 1991 · page 11

Joyce died on February 15 a short tame after an operation. She had been in poor health for a few years…

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Obituary Professor Fred Rose

Tribune · Wednesday 20 March 1991 · page 11

Early this year Professor Fred Rose died in Berlin, aged 75 years. Fred was born in England but loved Australia as his adopted…

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Obituary

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 17 May 1991 · page 44

SOUNIA KRASS, wile of former Central Synagogue cantor the late Reverend David Krass, died recently at the age of 92…

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Obituary

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 24 May 1991 · page 33

They helped to start the North Shore Synagogue in 1940 and later, the Cremorne and District Hebrew Congregation…

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Former Hebrew Standard editor dies OBITUARY

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 7 June 1991 · page 33

LOU Whitefield — “the man with the straw boater” — died last week in Noosaville, Queensland, near Brisbane. He was 84…

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The master of dybbuks and demons dies at 87 OBITUARY

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 2 August 1991 · page 19

New York: ISAAC Bashevis Singer, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature who died in a nursing home last…

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OBITUARY G. Athoi Burns 1912-1991

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 23 August 1991 · page 36

WITH THE death of Athol Burns last week, the Australian Jewish community has lost a strong supporter of Israel and a…

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Neocons and paleocons in the New World Order Despite the death of communism, America's Jewish neoconservatives remain sceptical about victory over the intellectual left

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 4 October 1991 · page 18

THE COLD War is over, communism has collapsed and the West has won a total victory. For those who devoted their lives to the…

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Joe Orton gets just deserts THEATRE Menage a Trois — an Evening with Joe Orton The Ruffian on the Stair by Joe Orton The Death of Joe Orton by Louis Nowra The Realm of Wasps by Steve Dawson Directed by Robert Connolly Design: Taylor Thorn Crossroads Theatre, Forbes Street

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 1 November 1991 · page 24

PERHAPS more infamous than famous, Joe Orton was battered to death by his homosexual lover Kenneth Halliwell in 1967, at age 34. His…

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