Dick Moss, a labor lawyer who, with Marvin Miller, the powerful leader of the union that represents baseball players, set the stage for the sport’s free agency revolution and the multi-million-dollar salaries to come. In 1977, he stepped down from the union to become a sports agent; his clients included the pitcher Nolan Ryan, for whom he negotiated baseball’s first $1 million annual salary, with the Houston Astros, in 1979 (the equivalent of $4.35 million [...]

Naftali Herstik, whose resonant tenor and elegant interpretations of Jewish liturgical music made him one of the most influential cantors of his time, died on Sept. 1 at his home in Ra’anana, Israel. He was 77. Known for his silken-voiced tenor, Mr. Herstik had an extraordinary range of three octaves, comfortable in deep bass, the high-C register or falsetto. Equally important was his gift for conveying the emotions of solemn prayers. They were often appeals [...]

Joel Fleishman, whose prominence as an expert on philanthropy was only the most public side of a man whose wide network of friends in high places, immense fundraising talents, and deep knowledge of subjects like classical music and fine wine made him an influencer among the nation’s wealthy and powerful, died on Sept. 30 in Chapel Hill, NC. He was 90 Having grown up in a tight-knit Jewish community in Fayetteville, he remained deeply religious [...]

Eugene Gold, a former tough-on-crime Brooklyn district attorney who in the late 1970s spearheaded the successful prosecution of David Berkowitz, the so-called Son of Sam serial killer, died on Aug. 5 at his home in Woodstock, NY. He was 100. After a 13-year tenure, Mr. Gold stepped down as DA in 1981, having gained further prominence as a leading voice in an international campaign to win emigration rights for Jews in what was then the [...]

Lore Segal, author of autobiographical novels of her life as a young Jewish Viennese refugee in England and as an émigré in America, died on Oct. 7 at her home in Manhattan. She was 96. Ms. Segal was one of 500 children who boarded a train in Vienna as part of the British-organized Kindertransport that delivered them from Nazi-occupied territory to foster families in England. Ms. Segal, age 10, was registered as No. 152, the [...]

Lily Ebert, a Holocaust survivor and author, died Oct. 9, at her home in London. She was 100. In July 1944, when she was 20 years old, she and most of her family were packed onto a train and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where, on arrival, she watched as her mother and two of her siblings were led to a gas chamber. She vowed that if she survived, she would tell the world [...]

Joseph H. Reich, a financier and philanthropist who with his wife created one of New York City’s first independently-run public schools, proving that impoverished students could outperform expectations in such a setting, and which helped to kick-start the city’s charter-school movement died ongtyt Sept. 29 at his home in Sheffield, MA. He was 89. Convinced that city-run schools were failing to educate students in high-poverty neighborhoods, Mr. Reich and his wife, Carol Friedman Reich, raised [...]

Lillian Schwartz, one of the first artists to mesh art, science and technology through computer-generated art, died on Oct. 12 at her home in Manhattan. She was 97. Early on, she experimented with watercolors, acrylics and sculptures, but turned to the computer when she was invited to join Bell Labs in the late 1960s to create films using photo filters, paint, lasers and discarded footage from science films, among other elements. “I never really could [...]