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Obituaries
Obituaries:Josif Kirtsman, 50
Josif Kirtsman was born in 1951 in Odessa, Ukraine. His whole family planned to follow his aunt and uncle, who had emigrated to America in 1912.
Page Dies
Leopold Page, a Holocaust survivor who was the catalyst for both the movie \”Schindler\’s List\” and the book on which it was based, died March 9 at the age of 87.
Stanley Kramer, 87
Legendary filmmaker Stanley Earl Kramer, best known for films such as the classic western \”High Noon,\” died on Feb. 19 of pneumonia. He was 87.
Obituaries
Barry Anisman abramson died Sept. 30, at the age of 52. He is survived by his son, Adam; brother, Jon ; sister, Mary Lou Yharra; and stepfather, John May. Groman Mortuary.\n
How to Make a Yiddish Musical
When I got the call from Montreal, fortunately I was sitting down. The woman said her name was Bryna Wasserman, and she wanted to produce a musical based on the film I had made about Harry Houdini in 1976.
The Lucky and the Strong
Sunday\’s memorial for former Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird, who died last month at 63 from complications of breast cancer, was more than a final tragic good-bye to (in the words of Rabbi Leonard Beerman) a \”woman of valor,\” the first woman to serve on the California high court.
Four Visitors
A full complement of interesting visitors met with the Jewish Journal in recent days, starting with the wife of a presidential candidate and continuing with a museum director from Berlin, an Israeli cabinet minister, and the first Arab woman to serve in Israel\’s parliament.
Changing Teens’ Thinking
The fresh-faced teenager looks like the girl next door until she displays her swastika tattoo in an episode of \”The Teen Files,\” which continues this week on UPN. \”I think the Holocaust was a good thing,\” she says, serenely. \”[Hitler] probably should have done more.\”
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