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Obituaries

Bruce Hochman

Bruce I. Hochman, a former president of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, died Aug. 11 at the age of 72.

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.

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.

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.

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