THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Irving Wolfe, 63;
Morris Blumberg, Shaarey Zedek Head Was Legal Aide to
Morris H. Blumberg, founder and
In his name, the family set up a
chairman of the board of Madison Morris H. Blumberg Scholarship the City of Detroit
Electric Co. of Detroit and Stand-
ard Electric Co. of Pontiac, died
Sunday at his winter home in Surf-
side Fla. He was 82.
Past president of Cong. Shaarey
Zedek, Mr. Blumberg was a former
board member of the Hebrew Free
Loan Society, board member of
Clover Hill Memorial Park and a
member of Perfection Lodge of the
Masons and Pisgah Lodge of Bnai
Brith.
Fund at the Wayne State Univer-
Irving S. Wolfe, 19640 Stratford,
sity School of Business.
an assistant corporation counsel of
the
city of Detroit since 1942, died
Under Mr. Blumberg's presi-
dency, Cong. Shaarey Zedek adopt- Jan. 23 at age 63.
Born
in Grand Rapids, he came
ed a resolution in May 1943 iden-
tifying itself with the Zionist move- to work for the city at the depart-
ment and calling upon all members ment of parks and recreation in
1926.
to join a Zionist organization.
Mr. Wolfe was a charter mem-
Surviving Mr. Blumberg are his ber member of Temple Israel and
wife, Ruth; two sons, Herbert served on the board of directors
Jacob and David Jacob of Stoney of its men's club. He also was a
In addition to the two electric Creek, Conn.; two daughters, Mrs. member of the Northwestern Old
companies which he founded, Mr.
Timers Club and active on the
Blumberg was co-founder and
committee which sponsored its
board chairman of the Madison
programs.
Electric Co. of Ann Arbor. A na-
Mr. Wolfe, a 1930 graduate of
tive of Russia, he had lived in the
the Detroit College of Law, was a
Detroit area 80 years. His resi-
member of the American Mich-
dence was 16500 N. Park, South-
igan State and Wayne County bar
field.
associations and active on the
Michigan Bar's committee on real
property law, a field in which he
was an acknowledged expert.
Surviving are his wife Jeannette
S.; two sons, John and Theodore;
Irving Herbert Grossman, past
his mother, Mrs. Bessie Wolfe; a
brother, Richard Wolfe of Pon-
master of Mosaic Lodge of the
tiac; and a sister, Mrs. Julia Ross.
Masons, past master of the .Cres-
cent Shrine Club and past patron
of Purity Chapter, Order of the
Artist Simon Buchbinder
Eastern Star, died Jan. 25 at age
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Simon
65.
Buchbinder, an internationally
Mr. Grossman, 21651 Kenosha,
prominent artist, died in The
Oak Park, was a pharmacist, hav-
Hague Monday at 69.
ing graduated from the School of
Buchbinder was born in Cracow,
Pharmacy in Sandusky, 0.
MORRIS BLUMBERG
Poland, and lived in Antwerp, Bel-
He was a native of Racine, Wis.
gium, during World War I. He won
Surviving are his wife, Anne; Chester (Eileen) Colen and Mrs. the Antwerp Municipality's Grand
two daughters, Mrs. Edward M. Ronald (Joanne) Goldfarb of Alex- Prix at the age of 15.
(Sheila) Goldberg and Mrs. Mar- andria, Va., a brother, Max; two
He later moved to Holland. His
cia Buckholtz; and one grandchild. sisters, Mrs. Etta Jacobson of paintings were exhibited in New
Florida and Mrs. Lillian Klein of York, Paris, Brussels and Tel
Sigmund Freud's Son New York; 13 grandchildren and Aviv. His last painting was in-
three great-grandchildren.
spired by Israel's Six-Day War.
Irving Grossman ,
Active in Masons
WILLAMSTOWN, Mass.—Oliver
Freud, a son of Sigmund Freud,
founder of psychoanalysis, died
Jan. 24 at age 77. A graduate of
the Vienna Technological Insti-
tute, he settled in Germany after
World War I, but after Hitler's
rise to power, immigrated to
France.
He came to the United States in
1943 and after teaching structural
design, worked for 13 years as a
research engineer for the Budd
Co. in Philadelphia. His sister, Dr.
Anna Freud, operates a clinic in
London for emotionally disturbed
children, and his wife is a painter.
Old City Arabs Will Get
Old Work Rights, Benefits
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The sen-
iority rights and other benefits
accumulated by Arab civil serv-
ants in East Jerusalem under the
former Jordanian administration
will be credited to them by the
Jerusalem municipality, the Jeru-
salem Civil Servants Union an-
nounced.
East Jerusalem civil servants
who join Histadrut, Israel's labor
federation, will be eligible for elec-
tion to the Civil Servants Union
when balloting is held next March.
In Loving Memory of
My Dearest Husband,
Father and Grandfather
HARRY SITNER
Who left us all broken-
hearted two years ago
Feb. 1, 1967 (21st day of
Shevat). Never to be for-
gotten.
Your wife Shirley, chil-
dren Marilyn and Arthur,
Barbara and Jerome and
grandchildren.
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Friday, January 31, 1969-47
Two Noted Yiddish Writers Dead;
Aleph Katz, of JTA ; Leon Feinberg
NEW YORK (JTA) — Morris
Abraham Katz, Yiddish poet, es-
sayist and a Yiddish editor of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency for
more than 40 years, died Jan. 22
after a long illness. He was 70.
Born in Mylnow, Russia, Mr.
Katz came to the United States in
1913 and attended City College of
New York. He joined the JTA in
1925 and retired last year. He
wrote a number of books of Yid-
dish poetry and essays, and a
number of plays. He was a mem-
ber of the Yiddish Writers Union,
the Farband Labor Zionist Order,
the Yiddish Dictionary Commit-
tee, YIVO, the Congress for Jew-
ish Culture, the Jewish Pen Club
and other organizations. He was
the recipient of the Congress for
Jewish Culture Award in 1955 and
other awards for his Yiddish writ-
ings.
Mr. Katz first attracted atten-
tion with descriptions of the
Bowery in New York City and
with alliterative poems for chil-
dren. His published books includ-
ed "A Mayse fun Yam" (A Tale of
the Sea, 1925); "Akertzeit" (Plow-
ing Time, 1929); "Dos Telerl fun
Himel" (The Saucer from Hea-
The Family of the Late
ETHEL PELTON
Acknowledges with grate-
ful appreciation the many
kind expressions of sym-
pathy extended by rela-
tives and friends during
the family's recent be-
reavement.
OBITUARIES
FRANCES BARNETT, 25125
Biarritz, Oak Park, died Wednes-
day. She leaves a son, Melvin; her
father, Sam Yoslowitz; one sister
and two grandchildren.
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JACOB (JACK) BLAUER, 14550
Leslie, Oak Park, died Jan. 25.
Survived by his wife, Klara; two
sons, Howard and Steven; a daugh-
ter, Gail; his mother, Mrs. Regina
Blauer; and two brothers.
Sandra; one brother and one sister.
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FLORENCE COPLAN of Hous-
EVA WEISBERG, 17111 Second,
ton died Jan. 28. She leaves a son,
died
Jan.
27.
Survived
by two sons,
Roger of Cornwall Heights, Pa.;
and a sister, Mrs. Isabelle Clark of Melvin and Newton; two brothers
Detroit. Interment Detroit.
and two sisters.
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IDA GLADSTONE, 20231 Schae-
fer, died Jan. 22. Survived by three
sons, Gilbert A., William and Nor-
man; two brothers, one sister and
eight grandchildren.
ANNA GOLDBERG, 11501 Petos-
key, died Jan. 27. She leaves two
daughters, Mrs. Richard B. (Billie)
Kramer and Mrs. Bebe Bern of
Chicago, three sisters and four
grandchildren. Interment Chicago.
MIRIAM ISENBERG, former De-
troiter of Evanston, Ill., died Jan.
25. Survived by a son, Morris of
Detroit; a daughter, Mrs. Joseph
, (Rose) Silver; five grandchildren
and five great-grandchildren.
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MURRAY WEISMAN of Downs-
view, Ont., died Jan. 22. Survived
by his wife, Phyllis; a son, Jerome
of Detroit; a daughter, Mrs. Fred
(Penny) Gotter; a brother, Max of
Detroit; and two grandchildren.
Interment Toronto.
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ANNA ZAGERMAN, 43345 Gains-
ley, Utica, died Jan. 24. Survived
by two sons, Myer and Leon; 11
grandchildren and four great-
grandchildren.
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During the coming
week Yeshiva Beth
JANE E. LEVY, 20241 Renfrew,
died Wednesday. She leaves her
parents, Goldye F. and Henry H.
Sills; two brothers, Allan B. and
John S.; and her grandmother, Mrs.
Sadie Feerer.
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yen); "Fun Alef bis Tov (From A
to Z, 1939). He also translated into
Yiddish Robert Louis Stevenson's
Treasure Island in 1927. Services
were held Sunday at the River-
ESTHER MARMEL, former De-
side Chapel, 76th St. and Arm-
sterdam Ave., and interment was troiter of Los Angeles, died Jan.
in Cedar Park Cemetery, Paramus, 26. Survived by nieces and neph-
ews, including Dr. Albert Stein,
New Jersey.
Funeral services were held Mrs. Sidney (Mary) Sacks, Mrs.
Friday for Leon Feinberg of the Milton (Clare) Abramson and Mrs.
Bronx, a Yiddish journalist, David (Shirley) Levine, all of De-
novelist and poet and one-time troit. Interment Los Angeles.
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city editor of the day—now the
Day-Morning Journal—who died
here Jan. 22 at the age of 71.
He was a native of the Ukraine,
CLARA MILLER, 19370 Votro-
beck, died Wednesday. She leaves
her husband, Max; two daughters,
graduated from the University of Mrs. Joseph (Adeline) Beckerman
Moscow, and came to the United and Mrs. Alfred (Shiblee) Rosen;
States in 1921. During his long ca- two brothers, eight sisters and five
reer, Mr. Feinberg published 15 grandchildren.
novels and volumes of poetry and
served as president of the Yiddish
NATHAN MUSKOVITZ, 2553 W.
Pen Club. He was also a former
vice president and secretary of the Grand Blvd., died Jan. 28. He
Yiddish Writers Union and na- leaves his wife, Edith; two daugh-
tional committeeman of the Na- ters, Mrs. Herbert (Sylena) Sil-
tional Committee for Jewish Cul- verstein and Mrs. Harold (Harriet)
ture. Mr. Feinberg's writing ap- Friedman; two brothers, two sis-
peared in the anthologies, "The ters and five grandchildren.
Golden Peacock," published in
1940, and "America in Yiddish
Sidney A. Deitch Cr Son
Poetry," published in 1967. He
served as city editor of The Day,
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PAULINE SHIFRIN, former
Detroiter of Los Angeles, died
Jan. 25. Survived by her hus-
band, Al; a daughter, Mrs. Arnold
(Sandra) Goldstein; a son, Nor-
man; a sister, Mrs. Joseph (Rose)
Platt, all of Los Angeles; a broth-
er, Barney Woronoff of Oak Park;
and five grandchildren.
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ABRAHAM BLUM, 23160 Park-
lawn, Oak Park, died Jan. 26. Sur-
vived by his wife, Rebecca; three
sons, Edward J., Norman H. and
Leonard; a daughter, Bertha of Los
RAE TAUB, 17655 Manderson,
Angeles; two sisters, six grandchil- died Wednesday. Survived by her
dren and two great-grandchildren. husband, Charles; a. daughter,
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MORRIS ROSENBERG,. 13530
Dartmouth, Oak Park, died Jan.
28. He leaves his wife, Ethel; two
Yebudo will observe_
the Yahrseit of the
following
deported
friends, with the
traditional Memorial
Prayers, recitation of
Kaddish and study.
ing
of Mishnayes.
Hebrew Civil
SHEVAT Feb.
Shlomoh Karbal
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Bessie. Holztman
14
2
Bessie Gruber
14
2
Fannie Faber
14
2
14
2
Louis Kartun
Harry Schneider
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15
3
Debora Sholnick
Noah E. Keys
15
3
Yenta Grunt
15
3
Benjamin Wrotzlawsky 15
3
Rachel Fishman
15
3
Helen SlIverston
15
3
Molly Plotkin
15
3
Moshe Goldfarb
16
4
Sam Zingeser
16
4
Isaac Hootner
16
4
Joseph L. Bale
16
4
Samuel Slafkin
16
4
Gussie Solomon
16
4
Alice Eisenmann
16
4
Mina Wolman
17
5
Allan A. Burns
17
5
Nathan Fine
17
5
Arthur E. Plotnick
18
6
Herbert B. (Sunlit
18
6
Fannie Smith
18
6
Frank Sears
18
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Celia Lafer
18
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Samuel Sherman
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Morris Sherman
18
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Joseph Goldberg
18
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Israel GlIcklin
18
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Morris Goldberg
18
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Herman J. Lazarus
18
6
Williem Greenstein
19
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Morris Singer
19
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Sarah Kane
19
7
Louis Cohen
19
7
George S. Cobitz
19
7
Max C. Shiovitz
20
8
David Kahrnoff
20
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Rebecca Zackheim
20
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