Former Sydneysider dies in California OBITUARY
LONG-TIME Sydney resident Rachel (Fagot) Kahane, nee Lipschitz, has died in Walnut Creek, California. She was 88. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, on…
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Obituaries & funerals, 1998
30 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2
Death of a sensitive, learned satirist
LONDON: Hundreds of mourners from across Anglo Jewry gathered at Bushey cemetery here for the funeral of Chaim Bermant, one of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →international Death of Zevulun Hammer at 61
JERUSALEM: Zevulun Hammer, described as an embodiment of the religious Zionist movement, died of cancer last week. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Brigadier Alex Roby OBITUARY
BRIGADIER Alexander (Alex) Roby died last week after a year-long battle with cancer. Me was 75…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Obituary Abraham Ribicoff
ABRAHAM Ribicoff, Connecticut’s first and only Jewish governor and one of its longest-serving senators, died recently at 87…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Obituary Warner Reed
COMMUNITY stalwart and businessman Warner Reed died last week. He was 73. Executive director of numerous communal organisations, he spread his generous…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Obituary Maria Torok
MARIA Torok, a psychoanalyst whose new methods for confronting pain and trauma drew many Holocaust survivors to her offices in Paris, has died in New York from leukaemia…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Obituary Gregor von Rezzori
THE author of Memoirs of an Antisemite has died at the age of 83. Gregor von Rezorri wrote about life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire into which he had…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Obituary Mordechai Strigler
MORDECHAI Strigler, a prolific Yiddish writer who was editor of the Yiddish Forward, has died. He was 76. Born in 1921 in Zamosc, Poland, he studied…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Obituary Moshe Sherer
RABBI Moshe Sherer, president of Agudath Israel of America and an ardent defender of Orthodox interests, has died after suffering a relapse of the leukaemia that he thought he…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Obituary Marking a yahrzeit
The Reverend Maurice Golomb, Born Brisbane, Australia, September 28, 1931. Died London, May 27, 1997, aged 65…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Obituary Alf Borman
COMMUNITY identity stalwart Alf Borman died last week. He was 86. A founding member of Parramatta Synagogue, He established a "roving minyan" in Parramatta in the 1940s,…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Obituary Rebbetzin Dr J Grunfeld
THE legendary matriarch of the Beis Yaakov movement, Rebbetzin Judith Grunfeld, departed this world on Lag B’Omer, aged 95…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Obituary Joe Moyal
PROFESSOR Jose Enrique (Joe) Moyal, a leading mathematical scientist, member of a distinguished Israeli family and a cousin of Israel’s Ambassador Shmuel Moyal, died in Canberra…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →feature The life and death of an Israeli native son Dov Dribben, son of an American cowboy, was a free spirit, more at home in a Bedouin tent than in Tel Aviv. He longed for open spaces, but the West Bank had no room for him. Yossi Klein Halevi reports
ON the side of a hill sloping into a desert wadi, surrounded by thorny bushes and boulders resembling sheep, a pile of stones marks the spot where…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Obituary Alfred Kazin
NEW YORK: In the last weeks of his life, Alfred Kazin was still reading with passion, discussing books with friends who visited him in hospital, thinking about the book he…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Obituary Richard Dreyfus
MASADA College this week mourned the passing of Richard Dreyfus, a leading…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Obituary Miriam Friedman
IT was with great sorrow that the Australian Jewish community learned of the passing in Bnei Brak of Rebbetzin Miriam Friedman. Her influence in educating generations of…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Obituary Sid Luckman
SID Luckman, a Jewish American gridiron football player who helped the Chicago Bears dominate the sport in the early 1940s, has died at…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Obituary Monty Green
LONDON: Monty Green, the last surviving British major-general from Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, has died at the age of 84. Born in the East End of London in 1914,…
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