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University of Chicago's Jewish community reels with the loss of 2 students heritagefl.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heritagefl.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Venezuelan couple gave a lasting gift to the Jewish community before they died in collapse Madeleine Romance, The Miami Herald Jun. 29 Christina Beatriz Elvira and Leon Oliwkowicz were among the 10 victims whose bodies have been identified after the Surfside condominium building collapse on Thursday. Oliwkowicz, whose remains were recovered on Saturday, was 80, and Elvira, whose body was recovered on Sunday, was 74, according to Miami-Dade police. The couple lived in apartment 704 of Champlain Towers South, according to Miami-Dade property records. They are survived by four children and 11 grandchildren. Though they hailed from Venezuela and recently moved to Surfside, they were closely tied to the Lubavitch community in Chicago, where their daughter, Leah Fouhal, lives, according to Chabadinfo.com. ....
“Spoon River Anthology” (1915) by Edgar Lee Masters, a collection of autobiographical verse monologues in epitaph form, was named by Eliot Weinberger as the “century’s most influential book of American poetry” alongside T.S. Eliot’s “Waste Land.” A new book on Masters from University of Illinois Press is a good occasion for examining the neglected subject of Spoon River’s Jews. An attorney who fought for workers’ rights, Masters has been described as a “violent antisemite,” possibly in part due to his association with the novelist Theodore Dreiser, who did indeed loathe Jews. Yet Masters had a more complex rapport with Yiddishkeit, as might be expected from a leftist who worked as law partner of Clarence Darrow. Darrow was so philosemitic that he wrote a short story, “Little Louis Epstine” about a Jewish paperboy who lost one hand in an accident (“He was run over by a beer wagon when he was a baby”) and the other to frostbite. ....
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