Posts Tagged ‘obituary’
Felicia Langer RIP – Born 9th December 1930 in Poland – died 21st June 2018 in Germany
In memory of Felicia Langer, the first lawyer to bring the occupation to court Felicia Langer died on June 21st this year. She was probably the first radical Israeli whose name I knew. I can remember that she was a hate figure for people in the local Jewish community as someone who was ‘anti-Israel’. She was…
Read MoreThe Death of My Father Rabbi Solomon Greenstein
The Death of a Father and a Generation of Working Class Jews Thursday, 1 December 2011 In the past few weeks I’ve posted fewer articles than normal. That is because my father died in the Royal Liverpool Hospital at approximately 1.00 a.m. on Saturday 21st November. I was rung up at about 12.30 a.m. by…
Read MoreRest in Peace – Terry Liddle
Terry Liddle 1948 – 2012, Comrade I first met Terry at an AGM of the Alliance for Green Socialism. I didn’t know him very well but despite his disability he was full of vigour and anger at the system. I would like to carry the commemoration below by someone who knew him better, Pete McClaren…
Read MoreHanna Braun RIP – A Jewish anti-Zionist to the end
A childhood refugee from Nazism who opposed racism by and against Jews It is with great sadness that I have learnt of the death of Hanna Braun, a childhood survivor of the Nazis and someone who took the message of anti-racism to her heart. That if racism against Jews was wrong, then it was equally…
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