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July 24, 2019

From Playing the Trumpet with Dizzy Gillespie to Blowing an Antelope-Horn Shofar

Jennie Litvack, in memoriam.

The economist Jennie Litvack, who died on June 27 at the age of fifty-five, made important contributions to the study of developing countries. But her two great passions were the trumpet—she had befriended the great jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie when she was fourteen—and Judaism. She also found a way to combine these two passions, as the Economist writes. (Free registration required.)

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