THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Harry Mondry,
Labor Zionist
Leader, Dies

Harry Mondry, president and
founder of Highland Appliance Co.
and leader in the Labor Zionist
movement, died Tuesday at age 67.
Mr. Mondry, 22902 S. Bellwood;
Southfield, founded the appliance
firm in 1934. Including the main

HARRY MONDRY

office at 5301 Grand River, the
company has eight offices in De-
troit and suburbs.
On his 50th birthday, Mr. Mon-
dry distributed gifts to philan-
thropies that showed the wide
range of his interests: Histadrut,
Jewish National Fund, Farband
Schools, Sholem Aleichem Schools,
Workmen's Circle Schools, YIVO
Scientific Institute, Labor Zionist
Relief and Rehabilitation Fund,
Pioneer Women's Child Welfare
Fund, Yiddisher Kaemfer, United
Hebrew Schools, Hebrew Free Loan
Association, Chesed shel Emes and
Teachers Seminar.
Born in Poland, Mr. Mondry
came to the United States in
1921. A year later he married
Adele Brose. Besides his wife,
he leaves two sons, David and
Eugene; a brother, Victor; three
sisters, Mrs. Esther Saporta and
Mrs. Chana Mondry, both of Is-
rael and Mrs. Malka Silverberg
of Argentina; and six grandchil-
dren.
A member of Shaarey Zedek
Synagogue, Mr. Mondry held posi-
tions of leadership in Arlazaroff
Branch 137 and Branch 2 of Far-
band Labor Zionist Order, led His-
tadrut campaigns and was secretary
and treasurer of Farband Folk
Schools.

Dr. Abraham Rubashov,
Shazar's Brother, Dies.

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

Friday, September 9, 1966-.47

OBITUARIES

Michael Birnkrant,
Law Firm Partner

Michael C. Birnkrant, former
Detroiter and a partner in the
local law firm of Birnkrant, Birn-
krant and Birnkrant, died Aug. 31
in Los Angeles. He was 65.
Mr. Birnkrant, brother of the
consul general of Austria in De-
troit, Norman H. Birnkrant, lived
in Los Angeles for many years, but
retained his partnership in the
firm with Norman and Theodore
H., another brother.
A graduate of the Detroit Col-
lege of Law, he was an interna-
tional investor and specialist in the
development of shopping centers:
He was a trustee of the University
of Southern California and a bene-
factor of the Cecele and Michael
C. Birnkrant Women's Dormitory
on the USC campus. In addition,
he was past president of the Bel
Air Association, founder and mem-
ber of the Los Angeles Music Cen-
ter and a member of Hillcrest
Country Club.
Besides his wife, Cecele, Mr.
Birnkrant leaves a son, Michael
Jr. and a daughter, Mrs. Marilyn
Mitchell, all of Los Angeles; six
brothers, Theodore D., Norman H.,
Arthur A. and William P., all of
Detroit, Cecil H. and Harold A.,
both of Los Angeles; two sisters,
Mrs. Jean B. Lawrence and Mrs.
Grace B. Grossman, both of Los
Angeles; and two grandchildren.

Funeral Directors
to Hold Seminar in NY

NEW YORK—A seminar on Jew-
ish funeral laws and practices is
being sponsored by the Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
America and the Rabbinical Coun-
cil of America for .' the members
of the Jewish Funeral Directors
of America, Inc., as announced by
Harold M. Jacobs, chairman of the
Joint Funeral Standards Commit-
tee of the Orthodox Union and the
Rabbinical Council.
The seminar will take place
Wednesday in the Hotel Ameri-
cana.
The lecturers will be Rabbi IS-
rael Klavan, executive vice presi-
dent of the Rabbinical Council; and
America; Rabbi Solomon J. Sharf-
man, spiritual leader of Young Is-
rael of Flatbush and past presi-
dent of the Rabbinical Council of
Rabbi Herbert W. Bomzer,,spiritual
leader of Young Israel of Ocean
Parkway and chairman of the Fu-
neral Committee of the Rabbinical
Board of Flatbush. Harold M.
Jacobs will be the guest speaker at
the luncheon session,
Dr. Samson R. Weiss, executive
vice president of the Union of Or-
thodox Jewish Congregations of
America, is the coordinator of the
seminar and will serve as its mod-
erator,

JERUSALEM — Dr. Abraham
Rubashov, brother of President
Zalman S h a zar, died Tuesday
morning in Jerusalem at age 74.
He suffered a heart attack at 2
a.m. and was taken immediately to
a hospital, but efforts to save him
failed.
T h e president w a s informed
about his brother's death in the William Heinick, 74
presence of his personal physician.
William Heinick, retired owner
The brothers were very close, and of Heinick Butter and Egg Co.,
one of the president's great joys wholesale dairy products firm,
had been the arrival of Dr. Ruba- died Sunday at age 74.
shov in Israel two years ago from
Mr. Heinick, 25221 W. Rue Ver-
the Soviet Union. Last year, his sailles, Oak Park, was a 20-year
son and daughter joined him here. member of Pisgah Lodge, Bnai
Brith, president of •the now-de-
funct Jewish Fraternal Club and
a member of Farband Branch 114
The Family of the Late
and Cong. Beth Moses. Born in
Romania, Mr. Heinick was a long-
ELIZABETH W.
time resident of the Detroit area.
SHAPERO
He leaves his wife, Eva; three
daughters, Mrs. Edward (Anne)
Acknowledges with grate-
Jacobs, Mrs. Meyer (Mary) Fid-
ful appreciation the many
dleman and. Mrs. Eddie (Lenore)
kind expressions of sym-
Mitteldorf; and five grandchildren.
pathy extended by rela-
tives and friends during
Democracy is based upon the
the family's recent be-
conviction that there are extraor-
reavement.
dinary possibilities in ordinary
people.—Harry Emerson Fosdick

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MARTIN ALTER, 12944 W. Ten
Mile, Huntington Woods, died
Sept. 1. He leaves his wife, Nettie;
a son, Melvin; a daughter, Mrs.
Marvin (Roberta) Lieberman; and
four grandchildren.
* * *
MAX APPLEBAUM, 6060 W.
Outer Dr., died Sept. 2. He leaves
his wife, Yetta; two daughters,
Mrs. Theodore (Ida) Wise and
Mrs. Lee (Eleanor) Horwitz; one
brother, two sisters and one grand-
child.
* * *
ROSE BERNSTEIN, 23001
Church, Oak Park, died Sept. 3.
Survived by her husband, Harry;
three sons, Sol, Isadore and Ralph;
two daughters, Sadie and Mrs.
Nathan (Yetta) Rosenthal; one
brother, 13 grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.

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MARK EVAN BUZETTE, 20481
Hubbell, died Sept. 1. Survived
by his mother, Jacqueline; his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph
Feldman of Miami; and a sister,
Karyn Leslie.
* * *
GERTRUDE CAPLAN, '746 Col-
ling,wood, died. Sept. 1. She leaves

Eliahu Ben-Horin Dies;
Writer, Revisionist Head

NEW YORK (JTA) — Eliahu
Ben-Horin, a writer and authority
on Middle East-
ern affairs, died
Sunday at the
age of 64.
As adviser on
Middle Eastern --
aff airs to the
American
Zionist Emergen-
cy Council 1945-
50, he assisted
Dr. Abba Hillel
Silver, chairman
of the council, in
the presentation
to the United
Nations in 1947
of the case for
the -- partition of
Pa.lestine
Ben-florin
and the creation
of the State of Israel.
Mr. Ben-Horin was a close as-
sociate of the late Vladimir Jabo-
tinsky, the founder of the Revi-
sionist movement.

a • son, Seymor J.; a daughter,
Mrs. Herman (Harriet) Plavnick;
one sister and three grandchildren.
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MAX CHERNICK, former De-
troiter of California, died - Sept. 5.
He leaves a brother, Michael of
Southfield; and a sister, Mrs. Earl
(Mary) Leader of Newport News,
Va. Interment Detroit.

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Serena Schermer; Owned
Detroit Apparel Shop

Serena Schermer, former De-
troiter who owned a downtown
dress shop, died Sept. 2 aboard the
steamship Hanseatic while return-
ing from a trip to Europe to visit
relatives in her native Czechoslo-
vakia. She was 68.
Mrs. Schermer lived in Holly-
wood, Fla., the past 16 years. Prior
to that, she operated the Holly-
wood Shop at Grand River and
Bagley for a number of years. In
Miami Beach, she also operated a
women's apparel shop.
Survivors are a brother, Sig-
mund; and two sisters, Bertha and
Hilda, all of Florida.

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week Yeshiva Beth
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the Yahrzeit of the
following departed
friends, with the
traditional Memorial
Prayers, recitation of
Kaddish and study-
ing of Mishnayes.

Hebrew Civil
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Sarah C. Rapp

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Rose Kolodney
Joseph Slakter

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Sept.
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Chernia Knoppow
28
David Weinstein
Anna Wrotslaysky 28
Sarah Pearl Oppen 28
28
Solomon Seibner

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Samuel Werber
Miksa Rosenthal
Rabbi M. Zager
Ida Nosanchuk

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Solomon Sidder
1
Morris Eizen
1
Martha Schwartz
1
Tillie Feldman
1
Tillie Berlin
1
Isaac Kammerman
1
Yeruchim Berlin

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Mary Greenbaum
Daniel Temchin
Samuel Skolnick
John Hayman
Aaron Nosanchuk
Mordechai
Alexander

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Getzel Bavitch
Morris Ausubel
Isadore Levine
Goldie Rachel
Yellin
Anne Weisswasser
Jacob Goldman
Abe Sitorsky
Molly Zelikowitz
Martin Goldsmith

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3
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Doubletalk Comic Dies

NEW YORK—Al Kelly (Kalish),
doubletalk comedian whose mono-
logues confused many audiences
for decades, died Wednesday at
age 67. He was stricken with a
heart attack at the close of his act
at a testimonial dinner in the
Friars Club, a private Manhattan
gathering place for show people.
Kelly made many television and
stage appearances, some of which
were for Jewish philanthropic
causes. He started his career in
1914 as a vaudeville dancer.

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ZELDA EINSTEIN, 13110 Mey-
ers, died Sept. 7. She leaves a son,
Steven Morris; a daughter, Fran-
ces; one brother, one sister and
five grandchildren.
• * *
LEO FLEKEL, 3358 Monterey,
died Sept. 4. Survived by his wife,
Frieda; a son, Stanley Green; and
one grandchild.
* * *
SAM GILMAN, 15415 Northgate,
died Sept. 5. He leaves his wife,
Myra; a son, Dr. Charles Gilman;
a daughter, Mrs. Richard (Ilene)
Weiss; two brothers, three sis-
ters and two grandchildren.
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PHILIP GOLDBERG, 17171
Prairie, died Sept. 5. Survived by
his wife, Rebecca; a son, Saul
Haberman of Indianapolis; a
daughter, Mrs. Meyer (Pearl)
Liebman; one sister and six grand-
children.
* * *
SIMA JACKNOW, 21010 Kipling,
Oak Park, died Sept. 2. She leaves
a daughter, Mrs. Donald (Rae
Ann) Sharfman; and five grand-
children.
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SIDNEY MOSS, 16623 Schaefer,
died Sept. 1. He leaves his wife,
Ann; a son, Stewart C.; one sister
and two grandchildren.
* * *
JENNIE NATHAN, 13281 W.
Chicago, died Aug. 28. Survived
by two daughters, Mrs. Kurt (Rae)
Ronai_ and Regina of Israel; three
sisters and four grandchildren.
* * *
ANNA SCHWARTZ, 18905 Mar-
lowe, died Sept. 2. She leaves a
son, David; three daughters, Lil-
lian, Mrs. Rosalee Scott and Mrs.
David ( Ethel) Steinman; three
brothers, three sisters and five
grandchildren.

HARRY SUGARMAN, 17127
Kentucky, died Sept. 2. He leaves
his wife, Tillie; two sons, Louis
L. and Dr. Marcus H.; one brother,
six grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren.
* * *
SAMUEL WALD, 19436 Schaefer,
died Sept. 7. Survived by his wife,
Esther; two daughters, Mrs. Al-
fred (Florence) Smith and Diane;
four brothers, three sisters and
one grandchild.
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GERTRUDE WEI S E NBER G,
9660 Dexter, died Aug. 31. Sur-
vived by her husband, Scholom;
two sons, Louis of Canoga Park,
Calif. and David of Bay City; a
daughter, Mrs. Jack (Helen)
Marion of Los Angeles; two broth-
ers, two sisters and five grand-
children.
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DAVID WISPE, 18619 Stoepel,
died Sept. 4. Survived by his wife,
Frances; a son, Lawrence of New
York; a daughter, Mrs. David
(Ruth) Shafer; one brother and
two grandchildren.

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