Obituaries from page 64 Co-founder Of Staples B OSTON (JTA) — Entrepreneur Leo Kahn, a co-founder of Staples whose impact on the world of retailing can be found in offices and kitchens across the United States, died May 11, 2011 in Boston at age 94. Kahn co-founded Staples, now a $27 billion business, with onetime competitor Thomas Stemberg in 1986, two years after selling the Purity Supreme supermarket chain, the Boston-based family business he built from a wholesale grocer into an $800 million company. Stemberg and Kahn became friends who attended basketball games at their alma mater, Harvard, and then brain- stormed ideas for niches in the retail world. After rejecting pantyhose, pet products, medical supplies and tele- phones as categories for a "super store" approach, they settled on office supplies. Ever restless, in 1991 Kahn started Fresh Fields, a health-oriented gro- cery store he later sold to Whole Foods in 1996. In 1997, he opened Nature's Heartland, a natural foods supermarket. Violin Virtuoso Failures — the hallmark of a "serial entre- preneur" — included a dis- count auto parts store, a Legal Sea Foods fish market spinoff and an upscale grocery store in Phoenix. Leo Kahn Kahn once said in a talk that entrepreneurs must grow with their concepts and know when to change and when to be true to their original principles. Kahn was born in Medford, Mass., to parents from Lithuania. He graduated from Harvard, earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York City and worked as a news- paper reporter before service in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He estab- lished several endowed professorships at Harvard. L ONDON (JTA) — Endre Wolf, a concert and orches- tral violinist who had a major career in Europe after escap- ing the Nazis in World War II, died March 29 at 97. Wolf performed throughout Europe and England in the years after the war, and his violin playing was called "eloquence and sheer wizardry." His performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Sinfonia of London in 1958 is considered a landmark both for its performance and its use of stereo in the recording. A downloadable version is now available. Wolf was born in what is now Chernivtsi in Ukraine and grew up in Hungary. He began playing violin as a boy. He was denied a university education in engineer- ing because of quotas on Jews and received a passport to Sweden in 1936 after getting a letter of invita- tion to play with the Gothenburg A New Community Connection Times have changed. And so has our community. Too often, we hear from families who are now spread out across the country, ,1!ino us that It ones are not able to make it home in t me for 4 a funera The Ira Kaufman Chapel proudly now offers a new, service –•Web streaming of funerals that can be viewed over any Internet connection, anywhere in the wor;d : live and/or arch'ved, t !10 cost to you. THE IRA KAUFMAN CHAPEL Brining Togctimr & Community 18325 Al. Nine Mile Road southfieid, Mi 42075 248.569.0020 66 May 26 s 2011 Obituaries rakaufmati.com Endre Wolf Symphony Orchestra. His aunt told Hungarian police: "Here is another opportunity to get rid of a Jew." He performed throughout Sweden during the war and secured Swedish passports for his family, which kept them safe in Budapest. After the war, Wolf taught and performed throughout Great Britain, as well as at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He per- formed on his 90th birthday in Sweden's Lund Cathedral. I I