Rosovsky, an economist, led a committee charged with improving conditions for Black students and shepherded the flourishing of Jewish life on campus

New Jersey's first poet laureate wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about childhood, death and the divisions between rich and poor and Jews and non-Jews in Pittsburgh

Lewis shot to prominence with hits like 'Great Balls of Fire' and 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On,' but career marred by controversy, including news he married a 13-year-old cousin

Lucy Simon, a composer who received a Tony nomination for work on Broadway hit 'The Secret Garden,' dies at 82; Joanna Simon, an opera singer who performed at Carnegie, dies at 86

David 'Sandy' Gottesman often opted to remain out of spotlight, but through family foundation managed to support various causes, including Israel National Library's new building

Lifelong advocacy for Palestinians brought filmmaker repeated accusations of antisemitism, despite his insistence that he sympathized with the Jewish people

Publicist confirms that actor who co-starred in film featured at Cannes and Jerusalem festivals succumbed to a sudden unexpected illness, without providing additional details

The Jewish nightclub owner, born Rolf Sigmund Sostheim, fled Germany for Israel in 1933 but later returned to Berlin to become the city's 'king of nightlife'

Serving in the Polish resistance in Krakow, Posmysz survived the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps before becoming a journalist and novelist after the war

Bank authored two witty best-selling novels featuring young single Jewish girls finding their way in the modern world