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Charles Krauthammer (YouTube screenshot)
June 22, 2018, 2:30 am
Charles Krauthammer, prominent conservative voice, dies at 68
Jewish Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist advocated for Iraq War, denounced Trump; recently wrote that he would 'leave this life with no regrets'
By Hillel Italie
This file photo taken on March 2, 2011 shows US novelist Philip Roth during a ceremony at the White House in Washington DC, where he received the National Humanities Medal. (AFP PHOTO / Jim WATSON)
May 24, 2018, 4:53 am
Philip Roth, teller of American extremism, appalled by Trump
The late novelist was profoundly shocked by the reality of 21st century US politics
By Hillel Italie
In this March 22, 1993 file photo, American author Philip Roth is seen during an interview promoting his book 'Operation Shylock: A Confession,' in New York (AP Photo, File)
May 24, 2018, 4:44 am
Philip Roth: A generation’s defining voice
He was a fierce satirist and uncompromising realist, committed to the narration of 'life, in all its shameless impurity'
By Hillel Italie
Novelist Philip Roth sits inside a screened tent at his home on September 5, 2005, in Warren, Connecticut (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)
May 23, 2018, 6:23 am
Philip Roth, fearless narrator of sex, death and Jewish life, dead at 85
A giant of American letters, Roth penned dozens of novels, essays, and articles and became the foremost chronicler of the American Jewish experience
By Hillel Italie
David S. Wyman, a Holocaust scholar, dies at age 89. (Courtesy)
March 15, 2018, 8:38 pm
David S. Wyman, Holocaust scholar, dead at 89
Best known for his book 'Abandonment of the Jews,' the historian was a fierce critic of American inaction during the systemic murder of millions of Jews by the Nazis
By Hillel Italie
Former first lady Michelle Obama at the Partnership for a Healthier American 2017 Healthier Future Summit in Washington, May 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
February 26, 2018, 12:23 pm
Michelle Obama to release memoir in November
Former US first lady's 'Becoming' will be published in 34 languages, including a Hebrew version released by Yedioth Books
By Hillel Italie
A customer looks at a copy of Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" as they go on sale at a bookshop, in London, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
January 11, 2018, 6:15 am
‘Fire and Fury’ sales top 29,000 in first weekend
Publisher raises initial announced printing of 150,000 to more than 1 million
By Hillel Italie
This file photo taken on April 15, 2013 legendary US singer and composer Chuck Berry, one of the pioneers of rock-and-roll, performing during a concert in Montevideo, Uruguay. (AFP/PABLO PORCIUNCULA)
March 19, 2017, 12:57 am
Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Chuck Berry dead at 90
Legendary guitarist who helped define musical genre with hits such as 'Johnny B. Goode' found dead at home in Missouri
By Hillel Italie and JIM SUHR
Author Amy Krouse Rosenthal poses for a photo August 1, 2016, in Chicago (Kevin Nance/Chicago Tribune via AP)
March 13, 2017, 9:14 pm
Amy Krouse Rosenthal, best-selling author, dead at age 51
Before her death, Rosenthal broke hearts with a New York Times article encouraging someone to marry her husband after she was gone
By Hillel Italie
In this Friday, Jan. 13, 2006 file photo, Jazz legends pose for a group portrait of National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters of the past and present, in New York. At foreground right is writer Nat Hentoff, who died on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
January 8, 2017, 6:50 am
Columnist Nat Hentoff, a secular rabbi excommunicated for his activism, dies at 91
Noted iconoclast, who made a name for himself as a jazz writer and radical, once said his heresy was a Jewish 'tradition'
By Hillel Italie
In an Aug. 15, 1986 file photo, actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is shown Los Angeles. Gabor died Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, of a heart attack at her Bel-Air home, her husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, said. She was 99. (AP/File)
December 19, 2016, 4:16 am
Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hollywood star with Jewish roots, dies aged 99
Hungarian-born celebrity, who was famous for being famous -- and for marrying 9 times -- passes away of a heart attack in Los Angeles
By Hillel Italie
An image from 'Curious George' (YouTube screenshot)
August 6, 2016, 12:00 pm
The Jewish refugees behind ‘Curious George’
H.A. and Margret Rey fled the Nazis on self-made bicycles, carrying manuscript for book on the now world-famous monkey
By Hillel Italie
Italian author Primo Levi on December 10, 1984 (AP Photo)
September 29, 2015, 10:15 am
‘Monumental and noble’ Primo Levi anthology to hit shelves
Auschwitz survivor's widely acclaimed complete works took 17 years to compile, runs 3,000 pages
By Hillel Italie
Part of the book cover to "Go Set A Watchman," a follow-up to Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird," set to be released on July 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Harper)
July 12, 2015, 1:32 am
In new Harper Lee book, Atticus Finch is a racist
'Go Set a Watchman,' actually written before 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' is a story of lost innocence
By Hillel Italie
Jewish literary critic M. H. Abrams (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)
April 23, 2015, 9:57 am
M.H. Abrams, Norton anthology founder, dies at 102
A son of Russian Jewish immigrants, the esteemed literary critic was one of the few Jews accepted to Harvard at the time
By Hillel Italie
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