Died Arnold Markowitz
Arnold L. Markowitz, 87, died Thursday, July 7, 2016, following a brief illness. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Arnold attended St. John's College of Annapolis, MD, and received master's degrees from Columbia University, Hunter College and City College of New York. He served at New Yourk University and vice president of the New York Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.
He published bibliographies on Louis Kahn and Paul Zucker, as well as a Guide to the Information Sources in Historical Preservation. In 2006, he wrote Sejny Revisited about hisviits to his father's shtetl in Poland for the Jewish genealogist journal, Landsmen. Arnold travelled the world with his partner of 60 years, the late Matthew Dolkey. He loved languages, museums, books, architecture, historical preservation, and smart-rally smart people. Inrecent years he divided his time between Philadelphia and Palm Springs, CA. He is survived by loving family and friends including Janice Freinberg of Cherry Hill, NJ, Erica Rothkoff of Cherry Hill, NJ, Pamela Khan of l\Livingston, NJ, and Rick Nusblatt of Palm Springs, CA.
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Arnold Markowitz „Sejny revisited” english version of his article on his visits to Sejny, the birth-place of his father, was published in the Landsmen quarterly 16 (1-2), June 2006 [published by Suwalki-Lomza Interest Group for Jewish Genealogist], and my Polish translation of it was published first in „Almanach Sejneński” in 2012 (No. 6).
Bartosz Hlebowicz
