Gloria Steinem, the journalist and organizer who became the most recognizable face of America’s modern women’s movement, died Sept. 2 at her New York City home. She was 92.

            Steinem was the daughter of a Jewish father and a Protestant mother. She was raised without much religion and generally described herself as secular, but she was unequivocal about where she stood when Jews were targeted: “Never in my life have I identified as a Christian,” she said, “but wherever there is antisemitism, I identify as a Jew.”

            Steinem continued writing and advocating for equality into her 90s. Her final book, An Unexpected Life, is scheduled to publish later this month.

Benjamin M. Rosen a Wall Street analyst and venture capitalist, whose early efforts to rally investors behind companies like Apple, Lotus and Compaq, made the promises of personal computing a reality, died on August 23 in Manhattan. He was 93.

            There are many gods in the pantheon of the personal computer: Bill Gates for software, Andy Grove for processors, and Steve Jobs for design, and Mr. Rosen for marshaling the financial resources necessary to help the industry take off.

            During the early 1990s, Mr. Rosen and his brother Harold founded Rosen Motors to bring a new type of car engine to market. The engine, based on a hybrid-electric powertrain, showed promise, but was ahead of its time. The company closed in 1997.

            Today, many electric/hybrid cars use engines similar to the one the Rosen brothers developed.

Peter Max, whose posters of Day-Glo flowers, butterflies, rainbows, and stars sold by the millions to express the exuberance of the countercultural 1960s, died on Sept. 14 in Manhattan. He was 88.

            His graphic images, incorporating Art Nouveau, Op Art, and psychedelic motifs, lent themselves to a long list of licensed commercial products, from sheets, glassware and shower curtains to airplanes and a stamp for the U.S. Postal Service.

            For his legions of fans, Mr. Max would always remain an avatar of the 1960s happy, innocent phase. “The Beatles had the music; I had the images,” he told Crain’s New York Business in 2007. “Kids would buy the posters and look at them as they listened to the music. It was like their MTV.”

Jay Maisel a masterly photographer whose dark and moody portrait of the jazz great Miles Davis performing at the Apollo Theater appeared on the cover of his landmark 1959 album, “Kind of Blue” — Mr. Maisel’s best-known work in a long and varied career — died on August 20 at his home in Brooklyn. He was 95.

            Mr. Maisel’s honors include the 1987 Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, and induction into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame (now the Creative Hall of Fame) in 1995. In a 2018 documentary, directed by the photographer Stephen Wilkes, Mr. Maisel said: “There’s a quiz I give people. Do you like photographing or do you like photographs? Choose one. And you learn a lot about yourself by choosing one or the other. Some people like photographs. I like photographing. The act of photographing is what it’s all about.”

Ada Yonath, the boundary-pushing Israeli chemist whose ingenuity and tenacity helped unlock the inner workings of the ribosome — the microscopic factory inside every living cell that builds the proteins necessary for life — died on August 31. She was 87. The Weizmann Institute of Science, near Tel Aviv, where Dr. Yonath worked for decades, announced her death.

            Dr. Yonath’s career was defined by a question that had long bedeviled scientists: What does the ribosome actually look like? Determining its three-dimensional structure at the molecular level was considered one of biology’s most elusive challenges.

            Although progress was slow, by the 1980s and ‘90s, her laboratory began producing increasingly detailed images of the ribosome. Around the same time, two other researchers entered the field. All three of their efforts culminated in the first high-resolution images of the ribosome’s structure. For this achievement, they shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In announcing the award, the Nobel committee highlighted their roles in clarifying “fundamental and medically important aspects of ribosome function” that led to “the development of novel antibiotic drugs in the ongoing medical struggle against the ever-emerging drug resistance among bacterial pathogens.”

            Chosen to deliver the Nobel acceptance speech because of her resolve and pioneering methodology, Dr. Yonath said that the earliest inspiration for her research came from the polar bear. “Polar bears pack their ribosomes in an orderly way in their cells just before hibernation,” she said, “and these stay intact and functional for months. I said: ‘If polar bears know how to do it, we can do it, too.’”

The Shofar joins the membership in mourning the death of Marilyn Schnitzer, mother of shul member Howard Schnitzer. The funeral took place at the Old Montefiore Cemetery on Tuesday, August 18, with Rabbi Robert L. Wolkoff presiding. Shiva was held at the Schnitzer home in Greenport.

David Hirsch, who was among the first to grow wine grapes on the windswept, fogbound Sonoma Coast of California, stimulating interest in the area that would become one of America’s great wine-producing regions, died on July 28 in Santa Rosa, CA. He was 81.

Mr. Hirsch’s 77-acre vineyard of pinot noir and chardonnay grapes, stoked the imaginations of young, gifted producers. Initially, Mr. Hirsch sold his grapes to companies that used them in anonymous Sonoma blends. But in the early 1990s, producers bottled wines designated with the Hirsch Vineyards brand, establishing the reputation of the Sonoma Coast for elegant wines. Mr. Hirsch eventually started to produce his own wines, but he never stopped selling to other winemakers.

Before settling on land in Sonoma, he searched in Idaho, Oregon and Northern California. Finally, he saw an ad for an old ranch on the Sonoma Coast near the town of Cazadero, two hours by car from the Golden Gate Bridge, on a ridge 1,500 feet up from the ocean. “This was the place,” he said. “There was no electricity, no houses, and it was dirt cheap it had no value.”

By 1988, he had taken up grape growing full time. “My inspiration,” he said, “was to create that transcendental community, an integrated, self-sustaining community that would be able to withstand the traps that the analytic and material approach to life always bring.”