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Jewish Life Stories: One of the last ‘Ritchie Boys’ dies at 101

JL;DR SUMMARY Victor Brombert, a prominent literature scholar and a member of the Ritchie Boys, a secret American intelligence unit during WWII, passed away at 101. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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World War IiJewish RefugeesPrinceton UniversityYale UniversityRitchie BoysD DayComparative LiteratureFrench CultureVictor BrombertLiterature Scholar

Places mentioned

Maryland, United States
"Brombert revealed his role only in 2004, in the acclaimed documentary The Ritchie Boys, named for the Maryland base where they trained."
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
"Brombert died on Nov. 26 at his home in Princeton."
Nir Oz, Southern District, Israel
"Hanna Katzir was taken captive on Oct. 7, 2023, alongside her son from Kibbutz Nir Oz in Israels south."
Hadera, Haifa District, Israel
"He was 85 and had been living in Hadera, Israel."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"Barbi Weinberg, the founding president of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the first woman to oversee a major American Jewish federation, died Dec. 12 in Los Angeles."
Istanbul, Turkey
"Isak Andik was born in 1953 in Istanbul and moved with his family to Barcelona as a teenager."
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
"Isak Andik was born in 1953 in Istanbul and moved with his family to Barcelona as a teenager."
Catalonia, Spain
"Andik emigrated to the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia in the 1960s."
Tunisia
"was born in 1955 in Tunisia."

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