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|name        = Evelyn Kozak
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|  birth_name =  Evelyna Chavka Rivka Jacobson  
|birth_date  = {{birth date|1899|8|14}}<ref name="GRG">{{cite web|title=Oldest Validated Living Supercentenarians|url=http://grg.org/Adams/E.HTM|work=Gerontology Research Group|accessdate=December 18, 2012|archive-date=January 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103173911/http://grg.org/Adams/E.HTM|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|birth_place = [[Lower East Side]], [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], [[Unite States|U.S.]]
|death_date  = {{death date|2013|6|11}}<br>(age 113 [[year]]s, 301 [[day]]s)
|death_place = [[Brooklyn]], New York City, U.S.
|nationality = [[American nationality law|American]] 
|known_for   = [[Supercentenarian]]
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|awards      = "Evelyn Kozak Day" in Pittsburgh in 2009, in honor of her 110th birthday
|parents     = Isaac Jacobson<br>Katie Jacobson  
|title       = World's oldest living Jewish person
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'''Eva Chavka Rivka "Evelyn" Kozak''' (née '''Jacobson''') (August 14, 1899 &ndash;– June 11, 2013)<ref name="GRG"/><ref name="YWN">{{cite web|url=http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/172435/Boro-Park%3A-Oldest-Jewish-Person-Dies-At-113-Years-Old%3B-Levaya-To-Be-Held-Today.html|title=Boro Park: Oldest Jewish Person Dies At 113 Years-Old; Levaya To Be Held Today|date=June 11, 2013|publisher=Yeshiva World News|accessdate=11 June 2013}}</ref> was an [[Americans|American]] [[Jews|Jewish]] [[supercentenarian]] who was the world's oldest living [[Jews|Jewish]] person,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.jwire.com.au/news/australias-oldest-jew-passes-away/17989 |author= |title=Australia’s Oldest Jew Passes Away |publisher=Jwire.com.au |date=August 2, 2011 |accessdate=April 13, 2013 |archive-date=September 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922185525/http://www.jwire.com.au/news/australias-oldest-jew-passes-away/17989 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Australia’s oldest Jew turns 110|url=http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/03/06/3086294/australias-oldest-jew-turns-100|work=JTA|date=March 6, 2011|access-date=June 11, 2013|archive-date=August 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806072356/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/03/06/3086294/australias-oldest-jew-turns-100|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://poststar.com/oldest-records/article_288a694a-95c5-11e2-9556-0019bb2963f4.html |author= |title=‘Oldest’ records |publisher=Poststar.com |date=March 25, 2013 |accessdate=April 13, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/62483/elsie-rich-of-santa-rosa-is-among-oldest-jews-in-u.s/ |author= Emma Silvers|title=Elsie Rich of Santa Rosa is turning 110 — she was among the oldest Jews in the world! |publisher=Jweekly |date=August 4, 2011 |accessdate=April 13, 2013}}</ref> until her death at the age of 113 years, 301 days. She was also, born in [[New York City]] to Isaac and Kate Jacobson who fled from the [[Russian Empire]], and the oldest verified Jewish person in history from November 6, 2012, 12 weeks after sturpassing fellowning 113, when she broke fellow German-born American [[Adelheid Kirschbaum]]'s agerecord of 113 years and 83 days on November 6, 2012.

Kozak was born on August 14, 1899 in [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]]. She died from a [[heart attack]] on June 11, 2013 in New York City, aged 113though until August 27, 2014 when fellow Russian-born American [[Goldie Steinberg]], who was the oldest living Jewish person after her death, broke her record.

Kozak died of a [[heart attack]] at a hospital in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]] in the early morning of Tuesday June 11, 2013, just 9 weeks and one day before her 114th birthday and barely around a quarter of a day before the oldest living person, 116-year-old Japaneseman [[Jiroemon Kimura]] (who died at 2.08am the night of June 12 = 13.08pm the afternoon of June 11 [[Eastern Time Zone|New York Time]]), and was (for the last ten weeks of her life) the second-youngest of only 7 living Americans (with only Naomi Conner younger) as well as the fifth-youngest of only 12 still living people in the world born before 1900.<ref group="n.">'''Note:''' 1900 was ''not'' the first year of a new century. The 19th century started in 1801 and ended in (the end of) 1900.</ref> She survived two of her five children and had 10 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.

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