Judith Peixotto Sulzberger (December 27, 1923 – February 21, 2011
nytimes.com, February 22, 2011.) was an American

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

and

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. Her family has been associated with ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...

'' since her grandfather

Adolph Ochs Adolph Simon Ochs (March 12, 1858 – April 8, 1935) was an American newspaper publisher and former owner of ''The New York Times'' and ''The Chattanooga Times'', which is now the ''Chattanooga Times Free Press''. Through his only child, Iphigene ...

purchased the paper in 1896.

Early life and childhood

Sulzberger was one of four children of Iphigene Sulzberger (née Ochs) (1892–1990) and

Arthur Hays Sulzberger Arthur Hays Sulzberger (September 12, 1891December 11, 1968) was publisher of ''The New York Times'' from 1935 to 1961. During that time, daily circulation rose from 465,000 to 713,000 and Sunday circulation from 745,000 to 1.4 million; the staff ...

(1891–1968), the publisher of ''

'' from 1935-61.Arthur Hays Sulzberger profile
columbia.edu; accessed June 14, 2015. Her brother, Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger served as publisher of ''The New York Times'' and chairman and CEO of the Times Company; her sister

Marian Sulzberger Heiskell Marian Sulzberger Heiskell (born Marian Effie Sulzberger; December 31, 1918March 14, 2019) was an American newspaper executive and philanthropist, and a member of the family that owns ''The New York Times''. Early life She was born Marian Effie Su ...

was a philanthropist; and her other sister,

Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg (born Ruth Rachel Sulzberger; March 12, 1921 – April 20, 2017) was a newspaper publisher and member of the Ochs (surname), Ochs-:Sulzberger family, Sulzberger family. Biography Sulzberger was born to a American Jews, J ...

was a publisher.

Education

She graduated from

Smith College Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smit ...

in 1946, and from the

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (officially known as Columbia University Roy and Diana Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons) is the medical school of Columbia University, located at the Columbia University Irvin ...

in 1949. She spent two years interning in

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at Grasslands Hospital of

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but never completed her residency.

Career

She was a director of ''

'' from 1974 to 2000, and authored a book, ''Younger'' (2003). In the early 1990s, she provided financing for what became the J.P. Sulzberger Genome Center at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, her alma mater.

Personal life

She was married four times. She had two sons from her first marriage to Matthew Rosenschein Jr. : Daniel Hays Cohen (né Rosenschein) (1952-2016) and James Matthew "Jace" Cohen (né Rosenschein). Her sons were later adopted by her second husband Richard N. Cohen and they took his last name. Judith and her third husband Budd Levinson divorced in 1984, but later remarried.

Death

She died at age 87 from

pancreatic cancer Pancreatic cancer arises when cell (biology), cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a Neoplasm, mass. These cancerous cells have the malignant, ability to invade other parts of ...

in her native

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. She was survived by, among others, her third husband, Budd Levinson, and her two sons, Daniel Hays Cohen (died 2016) and James Matthew Cohen (from her first marriage), as well as a stepdaughter, two stepsons, four grandchildren, and several step-grandchildren.

References

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