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World's oldest Jewish person dies in US at 113
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June 14, 2013, Friday
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THE world's oldest Jewish person has died in New York City at age 113.
Evelyn Kozak's granddaughter Brucha Weisberger says she died Tuesday in a hospital after suffering a heart attack the day before.
Gerontology Research Group senior database administrator Robert Young says Kozak was the world's oldest documented Jewish person and the seventh-oldest person in the world.
Kozak was born in New York on August 14, 1899. Her family had moved from Russia to escape anti-Semitic attacks.
Weisberger says her grandmother had five children, 10 grandchildren and nearly 30 great-grandchildren.
Evelyn Kozak's granddaughter Brucha Weisberger says she died Tuesday in a hospital after suffering a heart attack the day before.
Gerontology Research Group senior database administrator Robert Young says Kozak was the world's oldest documented Jewish person and the seventh-oldest person in the world.
Kozak was born in New York on August 14, 1899. Her family had moved from Russia to escape anti-Semitic attacks.
Weisberger says her grandmother had five children, 10 grandchildren and nearly 30 great-grandchildren.
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