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 and raised money for Jewish student life at Duke. In 2021, the university’s Chabad chapter purchased a building for its new home, which it renamed Fleishman House.

He taught his final class in 2023, bringing a five-decade teaching career to an end — but not, he insisted, his career as a whole. “I’m not retiring now,” he said in an interview after his last lecture. “I’m just downsizing.”

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 Soviet Union.

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 only child of middle-class parents. Her parents followed in 1939.

She ultimately settled in New York and began to tell tales of her exile. “Other People’s Houses,” Ms. Segal’s memoir-disguised as a novel, first appeared in serial form in The New Yorker before it was published as a book in 1964. She became a regular contributor to the magazine. Her 2007 novel, Shakespeare’s Kitchen, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

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 what had happened to them, and to those who had no one to tell their stories.

She survived, and she spent the rest of her life fulfilling that vow. She spoke publicly about her experience, wrote a memoir, Lily’s Promise, which became a New York Times bestseller, and educated millions of young followers about the horrors of the Holocaust on TikTok, through an account she shared with her great-grandson Dov Forman.

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 $1 million and secured a building, opening the Beginning With Children school in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn in 1992. Six years later, New York State passed the Charter Schools Act, codifying rules for such experiments. Today, 15 percent of New York City schoolchildren are enrolled in one of the city’s 281 charter schools.

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 stay with one medium,” she told the Computer History Museum. “I would always learn the traditional method and then try to push the medium to find other ways to use it.”

Arie Kopelman, the president and CEO of Chanel Inc., who with marketing savvy helped transform an old French couture house into a global luxury brand, died on Oct. 7 at his home in Manhattan. He was 86.

During his run, the company’s annual sales soared to $7 billion from $357 million, expanding Chanel’s accessories, eyewear, cosmetics, fragrance and skin-care lines. Previously, he spent 20 years at the advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach.

In 1989, President Ronald Reagan appointed Mr. Kopelman to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He also served on numerous boards, including those of Columbia Business School, St. Bernard’s School in Manhattan, the New York City Ballet, and the Municipal Art Society.