icons in her work. She was Celia Birtwell’s neighbour on Addison Road in Notting Hill and painted a portrait of her surrounded by her artistic heroes. Her most famous painting is of Marilyn Monroe, titled ‘The Only Blonde in the World’. Most of her work was deeply personal – almost a precursor to Tracey Emin.

Detail from The Only Blonde in the World by Pauline Boty

Photo by Michael Ward

As well as an artist she was an actress, with a small part in Alfie as well as several parts in television. She was also a dancer on Ready, Steady, Go.

Photo by Lewis Morley

Her death was untimely; Boty was pregnant when she was diagnosed with cancer and refused to have treatment until after her child was born. She died five monthsDr. Lynn Kaye has been appointed Assistant Professor of Rabbinics at HUC-JIR/Jack H. Skirball Campus/Los Angeles, effective July 1, 2012.

Dr. Kaye completed her master's degree in Bible at the University of Cambridge and her doctorate in Rabbinic Literature at New York University. She also served as Assistant Congregational Leader at Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City.

Dr. Kaye's scholarly interests include the intersection of law and literature in the Talmud, the concept of time in rabbinic literature, and the Sasanian Persian context of the Babylonian Talmud.

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