The world’s oldest Jewish person has died in New York City at age 113, the Star Tribune reports.
Evelyn Kozak’s granddaughter, Brucha Weisberger, says she died early Tuesday in a hospital after suffering a heart attack the day before.
Kozak was the world’s oldest documented Jewish person and the seventh-oldest person in the world, according to the Gerontology Research Group.
Kozak was born in New York City on Aug. 14, 1899. She was one of nine children of a family that immigrated from Russia.
She had five children, 10 grandchildren and just under 30 great-grandchildren. She lived in New York, Perth Amboy, N.J., Miami and Pittsburgh.