Marion Wiesel, who translated many books written by her husband, Elie Wiesel, including the final edition of his magnum opus, Night, and who encouraged him to pursue a wide-ranging public career, helping him become one of the most renowned interpreters of the Holocaust, died on Feb. 2 at her home in Greenwich, CT. She was 94. Marion Wiesel shared her husband’s cosmopolitan knowledge of European culture and fluency in several languages. She quickly began translating [...]
Mort Künstler, whose meticulously researched and dramatically composed paintings of American historical events, especially of the Civil War, made him one of the country’s most prominent historical artists, died on Feb. 2 in Rockville Center, NY. He was 97. Mr. Künstler developed a sense of dramatic realism early in the 1950s as an illustrator for pulp novels and men’s adventure magazines. He refined his mainstream commercial appeal working for top ad agencies and magazines like [...]
Anson Rabinbach, one of the world’s leading experts of the Nazi era, died on Feb. 2 in Rome, where he was giving a lecture. He was 79. Professor Rabinbach was among several young scholars in the early 1970s who attempted to bridge the gap between social history and intellectual history, especially in the realm of 20th-century Europe. Frustrated by a lack of places in which to express his views, in 1973, professor Rabinbach and three [...]
Mel Bochner, an artist who produced often witty work, exploring the boundaries of art and the power of language in drawings, painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, books, installations and public art — new ideas in conceptional art — died on Feb. 12 in Manhattan. He was 84. “In 1970, I wrote on a gallery wall, ‘Language Is Not Transparent,’” Mr. Bochner told curators at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022, when the museum held a [...]
Marshall Rose, a real estate developer who was instrumental in reviving the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and transforming the adjacent Bryant Park from a mecca for drug dealers into a verdant Midtown oasis, died on Feb. 15 at his home in Manhattan. He was 88. A chairman of the library’s board of trustees from 1990 to 1995, Mr. Rose, along with his predecessor, Andrew Heiskell, and Vartan Gregorian, the library’s longtime president, [...]
Ken Rosenthal, who opened a bakery café near St. Louis, with sourdough bread as its star, and built it into a small chain that would become Panera Bread, died on Feb. 14 at his home in Scottsdale, AZ. He was 81. Mr. Rosenthal’s detour from selling women’s dresses to selling baked goods proved a smart one. From 1987 to 1993, he and his three partners expanded the first café into a chain of 20 stores [...]
Danielle Sassoon, serving as the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, met with Emil Bove, the Justice Department official who ordered her to drop the case against New York City mayor Eric Adams, the center of a quid pro quo scheme in which for dropping corruption charges against him, he would enforce the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Sassoon refused and resigned her position. In her letter of resignation, she said the [...]
Alex Bregman, the third-baseman who wore a Star of David on his cap following the Oct. 7 attacks, reportedly signed with the Boston Red Sox in a $100 million deal. It makes him the top-earning Jewish player in baseball history.
Scarlett Johansson condemned a viral AI-generated video that used her likeness and those of other Jewish celebrities to depict them giving the middle finger to Kanye West. “I am a Jewish woman who has no tolerance for antisemitism,” she said, but warned, “We must call out the misuse of A.I., no matter the messaging, or we risk losing a hold on reality.” (People Magazine)
The white cars moved slowly, their cargo of coffins unbearably heavy, their silence loud. Inside, the bodies of Shiri Bibas and her two small sons, Ariel and Kfir; also Oded Lifshitz, a retired journalist — all hostages stolen from their homes on Oct. 7, returned in death. The convoy drove past Nir Oz, the kibbutz from which they had been taken. Crowds lined the road as the cars passed — somber, standing with Israeli flags [...]
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