Daybreak: World’s Oldest Jew Dies at 113
Plus printing out the Internet for Aaron Swartz, and more
June 12, 2013
• Evelyn Kozak, who at 113 was the world’s oldest living Jew, died yesterday. She was buried in Queens. [Jewish Chronicle]
• Volkswagon, which used concentration camp prisoners in its factories during World War II, is donating $1.3 million to the Auschwitz International Youth Meeting Center in Oswiecim. [JTA]
• Kenneth Goldsmith, MoMA’s poet laureate, wants to print out the entire Internet as a tribute to Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide in January. [Cnet]
• “The two met as adolescents on the Vancouver bar mitzvah circuit.” That is all. [NPR]
Stephanie Butnick is chief strategy officer of Tablet Magazine, co-founder of Tablet Studios, and a host of the Unorthodox podcast.