FELIX POSEN

POSEN--Felix. The family of Felix Posen is sad to report his death at home in New York on September 3, 2025 at the age of 96. Born in Berlin on October 24, 1928, Felix was the son of Jacob Posen, the city's premiere silversmith of Judaica, and Ruth Drucker Posen, a singer in the chorus of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra until the racial laws of 1935 forced her dismissal. The family emigrated safely after Kristallnacht, first to England and then to New York, where Felix graduated from Stuyvesant High School and then Johns Hopkins University. After serving in a MASH unit in the Korean War, he returned to New York and began a long and successful career in commodities trading that took him in 1962 to Tokyo and in 1968 to London, where he lived happily with his family for 52 years. After retirement, he found a new passion in the study and support of Judaism as Culture, founding the Posen Foundation, whose ten-volume Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization is edited by the world's foremost authorities on Judaism from pre-Biblical times to the present and published by Yale University Press. He also continued to pursue the passion for classical music he inherited from his mother, singing in the annual Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall and attending music festivals in Austria, Switzerland, and at the Glyndebourne Opera in England. He is survived by his wife of 73 years, Jane Levy Posen; his children Stephanie, Daniel, and Melissa; their spouses Jonathan Levi, Diana Posen Suess, and Larry Hirschhorn; his grandchildren Rebecca, Gabriel, and Mimi Levi; Avi and Elias Posen; Jessica, Joshua, and Benjamin Hirschhorn; their spouses and partners; and great-grandson Emilio Uribe Levi.