Former TV journalist Myra Josephine Bacon, who has died in London, contributed to the JC from the 1970s and was an author,translator and historian. Born in 1942, Bacon interpreted from French, Hebrew and Arabic into English and translated more than 100 books. She contributed to professional journals and was a court interpreter in the UK, the USA and Israel. Her publications included Jewish Cooking from Around the World; Cooking the Israeli Way; The Historical Atlas of Judaism; and The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilisation. She also contributed to the Encyclopedia Judaica; Food Lives and the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink.
Bacon’s most recent book was Introduction to the Mushrooms of Britain and Northern Europe.
JUDY MILLER
