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Gloria Tessler

Gloria Tessler

Gloria Tessler is obituaries editor at the Jewish Chronicle.

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Holocaust education

Celebrated philosopher and champion of the Wiener Library, Alan Montefiore dies at 97

An Oxford academic who ensured the survival of the Wiener Library’s priceless collection

By Gloria Tessler

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Celebrated philosopher and champion of the Wiener Library, Alan Montefiore dies at 97
Polish historian and Holocaust survivor Marian Turski speaking at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, January 2025 (Getty)

Polish-born journalist and historian Marian Turski dies aged 98

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NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 15: Artist Jules Feiffer (C) discusses his piece on display during a press preview of the Metropolitan Opera's and The New Yorker's exhibition of "Hansel and Gretel" at the Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met on November 15, 2007 in New York City. (Photo by Scott Gries/Getty Images)

Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist and playwright dies at 95

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Israeli and Palestinian youths from the Gush Shalom (coalition for peace) demonstrate at the northern entrance of Jerusalem on June 11, 1994, for a peace solution without the Jewish settlements and for "Jerusalem a capital for two states". (Photo by Yoav LEMMER / AFP) (Photo by YOAV LEMMER/AFP via Getty Images)

My dream of peace for Jews and Arabs in the Middle East

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