David Rowland, a lawyer who secured the recovery of hundreds of looted artworks for the heirs of Jewish collectors who had been persecuted by the Nazis, challenging some of the world’s leading museums in doing so, died on August 15 at his home in Manhattan. He was 67.

Among Mr. Rowland’s high profile successes was the 2006 recovery of “Berlin Street Scene,” a 1913 painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, from the Brucke Museum in Berlin. In 2020, he secured the return of 200 prints and drawings by Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch and Marc Chagall, among other artists, from the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland. Following the return of “Berlin Street Scene,” Ronald Lauder, an heir to the Estée Lauder cosmetics fortune, purchased the painting for $38 million.

Edith Grossman, whose acclaimed translations of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes raised the profile of the often-overlooked role of the translator, died on Sept. 4 at her home in Manhattan. She was 87.

Dr. Grossman dedicated herself to translating Latin American and Spanish authors. Her technique helped make her one of the most sought-after translators of the genre. She gave English language readers access to the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Laura Esquivel and others. Her many honors and awards included the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation; the Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Civil Merit awarded by King Felipe VI of Spain.

One day, while she was immersed in translating Don Quixote, the phone rang. It was Mr. Gardia Marquez, sounding like a jealous husband. “I hear you’re two-timing me with Cervantes,” he said.

Shabtai Shavit, who as director in the 1990s of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, helped to broker a peace agreement with Jordan, oversaw the assassinations of Islamic terrorists, and navigated the global fallout from the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Sept. 5during a vacation in Italy. He was 84.

While the Mossad was credited with, and criticized for, numerous clandestine operations, Mr. Shavit and the agency were widely praised for their role in bringing Israel and Jordan to the table to sign a treaty in 1994, ending a state of war between the two countries that had existed between the two countries since 1948, when Israel was founded.

Mr. Shavit worked for the Mossad for 32 years, including seven as director under three prime ministers — Shamir, Rabin and Netanyahu.

After retiring from the Mossad in 1996, Mr. Shavit became chief executive of Maccabi Health Care Services, one of the country’s largest health maintenance organizations. He also worked for gas and security companies, advised the Knesset, and chaired an organization that awarded scholarships to veterans.

Howard Safir, who presided over diminishing rates of violent crime as New York City’s police commissioner in the late 1990s, but who was severely criticized for not acknowledging racial sensibilities after the deaths of Black men by his officers, died on Sept. 11 in Annapolis, MD. He was 81.

Murders, the most closely watched crime category, fell impressively on Mr. Safir’s watch — down from 1,177 in 1995 when he took over, to 673 when he left office in 2,000. However, the deaths of Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant, and Amadou Diallo, from Guinea, at the hands of his officers largely eclipsed his accomplishments.

Throughout his time as commissioner, Mr. Safir was unapologetic about his hard-nosed tactics and his barely concealed disdain for civil libertarian critics. “People ask me about civil rights,” he said in 1998. “Well, the No 1 civil right in my book is the right to be free from crime.”

Peter C. Newman, a maverick journalist and historian who skewered the political establishment in Canada, to which he had fled as a boy from Nazi-occupied Europe, died on Sept. 7 in Belleville, Ontario. He was 94.

In a long and prolific career, Mr. Newman had stints as editor of the Toronto-based Maclean’s magazine and of The Toronto Star while churning out nearly three dozen books, some delving into the inner sanctums of four Canadian prime ministers, the Canadian-based Bronfman liquor dynasty, and the Canadian media mogul Conrad Black.

He also wrote a history of the Hudson’s Bay Company, a three-volume dissection of “The Canadian Establishment” (1975), and a memoir that began with his family’s escape from Europe under fire from a dive bomber.

His energies hardly waned in his later years. “There’s a sticker on my computer that reads: “We do not stop playing because we are old. We grow old because we stop playing.”

Eva Fahidi, a Holocaust survivor who late in life began speaking out and writing about her experiences, as well as expressing them in dance, died on Sept. 11 in Budapest. She was 97.

After the war ended in 1945, Ms. Fahidi kept her experiences at Birkenau largely to herself for more than a half-century. Then, in 2003, on the anniversary of the day when she last saw her family members, she visited the Birkenau site and was disappointed to find is more like a tourist attraction than like anything she remembered.

She committed herself to telling her story. Over the next 20 years, she spoke to schoolchildren and worked with young volunteers who collected Holocaust remembrances from survivors. Her vehicle for doing so: dance. She engaged in a 100-minute performance that mixed dance and dialogue as it brought out her Holocaust memories.

Bobby Schiffman, who guided the Apollo Theater in Harlem through the cultural and musical changes of the 1960s and early ‘70s, cementing its place as a world-renowned showcase for Black music and entertainment, died on Sept. 6 at his home in Boynton Beach, FL. He was 94.

In 1961, Mr. Schiffman inherited the storied Apollo Theater on West 125^th Street in Manhattan from his father, Frank Schiffman. During the younger Mr. Schiffman’s tenure, the Apollo served as a launching pad for artists like Smokey Robinson and James Brown, and a hangout for local politicians like Adam Clayton Powell and sports stars like Muhammad Ali.

By the 1970s, Harlem was buffeted by drugs and crime and economic decline, and Mr. Schiffman shuttered the theater. While the Apollo became famous for its stars and spectacle, Mr. Schiffman never forgot its unique role as a center for Harlem life.