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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals
87 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 5
ROSE was born in Lutzin, Latvia, the second of three sisters. Her father left Europe and settled in Johannesburg, then sent for his family…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →YAAKOV Kainer, known as Jack among his Sydney colleagues and as Yasha in his family, was bom on December 2, 1915 in a village near Kiev in Ukraine. Yasha was the only…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →EVA was born in 1926 in Mishkoltz, Hungary. A younger sister to Dodi and Lotzi, she was doted on and spoiled by her siblings and her parents, and spent her early childhood in…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →SEND OBITUARIES TO jrobuck@jewishnews.net.au JAMES Taylor was one of a rare breed. He combined intellectual depth with humility, humour with knowledge and diversity with…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →ORIANA Fallaci, who divided her later years between New York and her native Florence, died in Florence after a long battle with cancer. She was 77. The crusading Italian…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →SEND OBITUARIES TO jrobuck@jewishnews.net.au BENJAMIN Phineas Cass was bom on May 15, 1902 in Bialystok, the second youngest of seven surviving children of Moses and Ellice…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →SEND OBITUARIES TO jrobuck@jewishnews.net.au RENATE Dorothea Fanni Bluth, (nee Bruhl) was born in Berlin on September 26, 1927. She spent the first 10 years of her life in…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →TO lose someone so young is terrible, but to lose someone so beautiful is tragic. To lose your mother leaves you lost for words, but I will do my best to describe my amazing mum,…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →MAGDA Rosenthal was bom in Budapest in May 1920. She was the elder sister of three brothers, Imre, Frank and Andrew (Bandy). While living in Kormano, Czechoslovakia…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →ROBERT Diamond was born in Paddington on March 20,1937. Bob’s parental home was warm and loving, Doris and Dick Diamond being the most liberal and broad-minded of…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →SEND OBITUARIES TO jrobuck@jewishnews.netau IMMANUEL was bom on January 31, 1924 in Oceanside, California. His mother, Violet Holding, was an Australian originally from…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →WILHELM (Willy) Itzkowitz was born on Yom Kippur in 1914. His family lived in Bielsko/Biala, an hour south of Krakow, Poland, a town with a vibrant Jewish…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →IN a century of violence, disorder and overweening ideology, voices for a civilised world were in danger of being shouted down. Reason and civil discourse were values that…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Book review JIHAD: THE TRAIL OF POLITICAL ISLAM Gilles Kepel…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →SEND OBITUARIES TO jrobuck@jewishnews.net.au YOCHIE was born in 1929 in Ferreira, a mining village in South Africa to first-generation South African parents of Lithuanian decent…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →SEND OBITUARIES TO jrobuck@jewishnews.net.au ALICE was born in Duernkrut, Austria in 1912 to Rosa and Issidoro, who died before Alice could get to know him. When the…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →SEND OBITUARIES TO jrobuck@jewishnews.net.au LIONEL Bowman passed away in Pretoria, South Africa, aged 87, after a distinguished career as a concert pianist and teacher…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →SEND OBITUARIES TO jrobuck@jewishnews.net.au MY grandpa, Basil Johnson, was, in many respects, like a second father to me. He was a man of strength and a rock for those around…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →JOE Fox was an activist throughout his long life. He was deeply proud to have had as his mentor Sir Basil Henriques. As one of the “boys” in the Oxford and St George’s Club in…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →MARKUS Wolf, the former East German spy chief vho bedeviled Western intelligence services and developed an interest in his Jewish roots late in life, died November 9 at age 83…
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