Pisar became a member of President Kennedy’s economic and foreign policy task force in 1960, and also served as an adviser to the State Department. (JTA) — Samuel Pisar, a Holocaust survivor who went ...

I first met Samuel Pisar, Holocaust survivor, lawyer, and presidential advisor who died on July 27 at 86, at the December 4, 1988 Israel Bonds International Elie Wiesel Holocaust Remembrance Award ...

Pisar, who survived Auschwitz as a boy to become a successful lawyer, an adviser to presidents and the creator of the text for Leonard Bernstein’s symphony “Kaddish,” died on Monday in New York. He ...

As premieres go, it wasn't exactly promising. When Leonard Bernstein unleashed his sprawling Third Symphony — titled "Kaddish" — on the American public in January 1964, the critics practically ...

Samuel Pisar, a Holocaust survivor who went to become a lawyer and writer, as well as an adviser to President John F. Kennedy, has died. Pisar, 86, died Monday in New York, it was announced Tuesday. A ...