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Obituary: Stephen Greif

Award-winning actor nominated for role in Death of a Salesman

By Emma Klein

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Obituary: Dr John Marks

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Obituary: Lady Greengross

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Obituary: John Wilkins - Catholic newspaper editor who embraced Jewish culture

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Obituary: comedian and actor Gilbert Gottfried

American comedy star whose exaggerated style and bad-taste jokes delighted audiences

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June 16, 2022 14:11

Obituary: comedian and actor Gilbert Gottfried

Jonathan Mirsky

Former pro-Maoist academic and journalist who would eventually become one of China’s most outspoken critics

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February 4, 2022 24:00

HANDOUT IMAGE: 2015 photo of writer/historian Jonathan Mirsky with the Dalai Lama in London. Mirsky and his dog visited the Dalai Lama in his hotel room during a trip to London (Photo by Ian Cumming)

Professor Lewis Minkin

Political analyst who explained the links between the Labour Party and the trade unions

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August 20, 2021 12:00

Elisabeth Russell Taylor

Novelist whose dark and unsettling work mingled the elegant with the grotesque

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February 26, 2021 24:58

David Graeber

Anthropologist and activist prominent in the Occupy Wall Street movement

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February 12, 2021 24:49

Suzanne Perlman

Expressionist painter influenced by ancient Hebrew melodies on the island of Curaçao

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December 11, 2020 16:21

Angela Buxton

Bond of champions – one Jewish, one Black – in 1950s world of segregated tennis

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September 15, 2020 22:19

Obituary: Josephine Klein

Psychotherapist who became the "archangel" of mods, rockers and hippies

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March 7, 2019 10:11

Obituary: Ralph Koltai

Abstract set designer who created a war crimes library in Nuremberg

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February 12, 2019 12:56

Obituary: Thomas Wiseman

Writer whose family history infused his literary output

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November 1, 2018 16:02

Obituary: Anne Freeman

Dramatic soprano and impresario who brought opera to local audiences

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September 17, 2017 14:53

Why converts convert

Some converts may be drawn by love of a Jew, but for some it is love of Judaism

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July 24, 2017 10:49