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Jewish Life Stories: The producer who brought us ‘Sleepless in Seattle’

JL;DR SUMMARY Lynda Obst, a celebrated Hollywood producer known for iconic films like Sleepless in Seattle, passed away at age 74. 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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HolocaustHebrew LiteratureJewish RenewalFilm ProductionLynda ObstSleepless In SeattleBaruch ThalerAnne Golomb HoffmanCharles FenyvesiErich Goldhagen

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Los Angeles, California, United States
"Lynda Obst, a film producer whose credits include The Fisher King, Interstellar, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Contact, Hope Floats, One Fine Day and Sleepless in Seattle, died Oct. 22 at her home in Los Angeles."
Manhattan, New York, United States
"Born in Manhattan and raised in Harrison, New York, Obst was an editor at The New York Times magazine before coming to Hollywood in the late 1970s."
Harrison, New York, United States
"Born in Manhattan and raised in Harrison, New York, Obst was an editor at The New York Times magazine before coming to Hollywood in the late 1970s."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Later in life he embraced the spirit of Jewish Renewal, and came to lead Nitzotzot (Sparks) in Brooklyn, an egalitarian community whose members include formerly haredi Orthodox Jews looking to express their Judaism in different and creative ways."
Bronx, New York, United States
"As a professor of English and Modern Hebrew Literature at Fordham University, the Jesuit university in the Bronx, her specialties included modernist Hebrew writers like S.Y. Agnon, contemporary Israeli fiction, and Freud and psychoanalysis."
Hungary
"Born in a small town in Hungary in 1937, Charles Fenyvesi and his parents managed to survive the Holocaust on forged papers."
Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine
"A survivor of the Romanian-Jewish ghetto in Czernowitz, now in Ukraine, Goldhagen rarely discussed his own experiences but wrote widely on antisemitism, ethnic minorities, Eastern European Jewry and Albert Speer, Hitlers war production chief."

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