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114-year-old Pearl Berg, the oldest Jewish woman in the world, passed away in her hometown of Los Angeles - this was reported last night (Monday) by the US media. Berg was considered the third oldest American, after two women who were 116 - and the ninth in the entire world
. According to her birth certificate, which was found a few years ago, Berg was born to Archie Sinnenberg and Annie Gerzon, immigrants from Russia and Poland, on October 1, 1909, in Evansville, Indiana. Her birth name was Pearl Louise Sinnenberg. She graduated from high school, and when she was 20, she moved with Her family moved to California, and two years later she married Mark, a Ukrainian immigrant.The two remained married until Mark's death in 1989, 58 years later.
Pearl Berg, the oldest Jewish woman in the world, passed away at the age of 114 in Los Angeles.
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Berg was the mother of two sons, Alan and Robert.
She lived in the Los Feliz neighborhood, and was a member of the "Temple Israel" Synagogue in Hollywood, which she joined in 1937.
In an interview with the "Los Angeles Times" newspaper, conducted four years ago in preparation for her 110th birthday, Berg talked about her two great loves since she was a child: rhyming works and reading until the wee hours of the night.
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