Joseph Bernstein, 84, Editor of Daily Forward, Passes Away
Joseph Bernstein, known as I
much for his leadership in Jewish
organizational life as for his con-
tribution to the Yiddish press, died
Monday, five months before he
would have observed his 85th birth-
day.
Mr. Bernstein, 18940 Coyle, was
manager and editor of the Jewish
Daily Forward in Dettoit. He had
served the community as long as
he lived in Detroit, 54 years.
The Jewish News featured a
profile on Mr. Bernstein April
2. It recounted his work as a
member of the Jewish Community
funeral services Wednesday at Ira
Kaufman Chapel.
Abe Hershkovitz, of the New
York offices bf the Jewish Daily
Forward and a founder of the Am-
algamated Clothing Workers of
America, spoke and also read a
message from Adolph Held, na-
tional chairman of the Jewish La-
bor Committee.
Ira Sonnenblick, director of the
Jewish Home for the Aged; Dr.
Shmarya Kleinman, chairman of
the local Jewish Labor Committee;
and Dr. Leon Fram of Temple Is-
rael also delivered eulogies.
Cantor Nicholas Fenakel chant-
ed the El Mole Rachamim.
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Mendel Osherowitch,
Yiddish Author, Dies
NEW YORK (JTA) — Mendel
Osherowitch, member of the edi-
torial staff of the Jewish Daily
Forward and author of numerous
books, died here last weekend. He
was 78.
Mr. Osherowitch was born in
Russia and came to the United
6itztoz,
States in 1910. In 1914 he joined
the Forward, later becoming city
editor. His prolific literary output
included three novels—"Restless
Souls," "Marie Antoinette" and
"Queen Marianne."
He also wrote a book, "David
Kessler and Muni Weisenfieund,
Two Generations in the History of
the Yiddish Theater in America."
His "Moses Montefiore," a bio-
graphy of the late British-Jewish
philanthropist, was published in
1941. He was also the author of
"History of the Jews in the
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ganizer and vice president and of
the executive board of the Jewish
Welfare Federation.
He was a founder of Workmen's
Circle here and was an organizer
of Histadrut, besides serving on
the board of the Jewish Home for
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Zionist - Order.
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Mr. Bernstein's son, Dr. Eli N.
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in his father's honor to the Home
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Besides his son, Mr. Bernstein
leaves his wife, Sarah; two. daugh-
ters, Gertrude and • Mrs. Joseph
(Betty) Wolfe; three brothers,
Lawrence, Morris and Sam; seven
grandchildren and five great-
grandchildren.
His contributions to the labor
movement and to the unity of the
Jewish community here were re-
counted in eulogies delivered at
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M. Levy, former New York Times
correspondent in the Middle East,
who was active after his - retirement
as a correspondent aiding Jews
living in Arab countries, died Mon-
day at age of 64.
Mr. Levy, who knew Hebrew,
Arabic and six other languages,
was born in Brunswick, N. J. and
taken to Jerusalem as an infant.
He attended the University of
Beirut and served later as private
and political secretary to Sir Ron-
ald Storrs, governor of Jerusalem
under the British Mandate.
He served the Times from 1928
to 1947, working out of Jerusalem
and later from Cairo. After his re-
tirement from the Times, he served
as public • relations counsel to the
French embassy and was honored
as an officer of the French Legion
of Honor.
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the Dreyfus Affair, and a history
of the Jewish Daily Forward.
He edited a three-volume work
entitled "Jews in the Ukraine."
He trmnslated into Yiddish from
English, Chaim Weizmann's auto-
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