Roundup of recent Jewish obituaries, tributes, history, news

Reminiscences

Remembering my father, Michael H. Abbey, 27 years later

Remembering Harvey Milk, gay activist, assassin’s victim

Obituaries

Karen Elizabeth Margalit, 29, U.S., Israel, Sept. 26

Howard Zimmerman, 64, U.S., developer, Nov. 15

Paul Brach, 83, U.S., artist, Nov. 16

Hollis Alpert, 91, U.S., film critic, author, Nov. 18

Pauline Weinstein Ledeen, 97, U.S., prison volunteer, ‘Bubbe Teresa,’ Nov. 27

Moses M. Weinstein, 95, U.S., politician, judge, Nov. 30

Seymour Benzer, 86, U.S., biologist, Nov. 30

Maayan Rotenberg, 18, Israel, soldier, accident, Nov. 30

Donald G. Kurtz, 64, U.S., decorated war veteran, Dec. 1

Nissen Pinson, 89, Russian, French, Chabad rabbi, Dec. 2

Larry Wachtel, 77, U.S., stock analyst, Dec. 2

Sherman Dreiseszun, 85, U.S., real estate developer, Dec. 2

Shulamit Lack, 83, Hungary, U.S., WWII resistance fighter, Dec. 3

Mel Cheren, 75, U.S., disco impresario, AIDS activist, Dec. 7

Ben Kane, 97, U.S., played for Rockne at Notre Dame, Dec. 7

Murray Klein, 84, U.S., Zabar’s co-owner, Dec. 7

Walter Gerson, 85, U.S., businessman, Army chaplain, Dec. 8

Elli Kohen, 77, Turkey, U.S., professor, Dec. 9

Vitali Hakko, 94, Turkey, leading fashion designer, Dec. 10

Gordon Samuels, 84, U.K., Australia, lawyer, jurist, Dec. 10

News

Herzl’s grandson reburied in Jerusalem with family

Prominent Jewish deaths Dec. 1-7: Ben-Gurion, Copland, Klemperer