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Access to family papers sheds new light on the troubled singer-songwriter

Morton Schatzman, MD Psychotherapist and author Dr Joseph Burke - Credit: the family Medical doctor, psychotherapist and author Dr Joseph Herman Berke has died aged 81 from congestive heart failure. All the world’s a stage, and one man, Joe, in his time, played many parts. He was a hippie and beatnik, and later a Hasidic Jew.  He came to love Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. For years, once a month, a Kabbalah group met at his home. In 1970 he co-founded with his wife Roberta Elzey, my wife ...