Prof. I. Leo Sharfman, U-M Economis Prof. Isaiah Leo Sharfman, chairman of the University of Michigan economics department for 27 years. died Tuesday in Washington D.C. at age 83. He had lived there for the past two years. An authority on transportation economics. Dr. Sharfman retired from the U. of M. faculty in 1955 after 43 years there. He was Henry Carter Adams university professor of economics. Born in Polonnoe, Russian Ukraine. Prof. Sharfman was brought to the United States at age 8. He received his AR from Harvard College in 1907 and his LIB from Harvard Law School in 1910. Commencing his teaching career as assistant in economics at Har- vard University. he went to Tien- tsin. China (1910-111 to serve as professor of law and political sci- ence at the Imperial Pei-Yang DR. ISAIAH LEO SHARFMAN University. He came to the Univer- sity of Michigan in 1912 as lecturer in economics. was advanced to as- sociate professor and became full- fledged professor in 1914. rising to the chairmanship of the economics department 13 years later. During the summer quarter of 1939. Prof. Sharman was visiting professor of economics at Stanford University. President of the American Eco- nomic Association in 1945. he was a member of the American Asso- ciation of University Professors, American Statistical Association. American Political Science Asso- ciation. Academy of Political Sci- ence, National Bureau of Economic Research, Michigan Academy of Science. Arts and Letters and the Research Club of the University of Michigan. which he served as president in 1938 - 39. He was admitted to the Massa- chusetts Bar in 1909. served the National Civic Federation as chief investigator of Commis- sion of Regulation of Public Judaic Heritage Medals Commemorate Abraham, Moses; Waiting List Told Utilities, 1912.13; was director of investigation of the anti-trust policy of the National Industrial Conference Board, 1923-24; did research in administrative law and procedure for the Common. wealth Fund. 1925 - 27. Prof. Sharfman's varied career of public service is indicated in the numerous public offices he has held: advisory committee on rail- road employment. Office of Fed- eral Coordinator of Transporta- tion: advisory committee on eco- Dr. Herman Seidel., Zionist Leader BALTIMORE—Dr. Herman Sei- del. pioneer Zionist in this country and an honorary vice president of Histadrut. National Committee for Labor Israel. died here Sept. 3 at age 85. Dr. Seidel. a native of Lithu- ania. was grad- uated from the University of Maryland's Col- lege of Physicans and Surgeons. He retired from his geriatrics practice last year. after serv- Dr. Seidel ing as chief of medicine for 25 years at Levindale, a home for the aged in Baltimore. He was a member of the Maryland Commission for the Aged. A year after arriving in Balti- more as a young man, Dr. Seidel attended a founding convention of the Poale Zion. Labor Zionists. In the 1920s, he helped form the Keren Hayesod (United Jewish Appeal), and in connection with its activities became friends with such leading Zionists as Chaim Weizmann, Golda Heir, David Ben-Gurion and Itzhak Ben Zvi. t t nomics and social scientists to President's Committee on Civil Service Improvement: referee, Na- tional Railroad Adjustment Board; member and chairman of Presi- dential Emergency Boards in Rail- road Labor Disputes; chairman of arbitration boards under Railway Labor Act; associate member of National War Labor Board: mem- ber of National Railway Labor Panel. He was the author of "Railway Regulations." "American Railroad Problems." "Interstate Commerce Commission" (5 volumes), and co- author of "Commission Regulation of Public Utilities." Dr. Sharfman has contributed articles to univer- sity publications in this country and in China and has had editorial connections with American Eco- nomic Review. Menorah Journal and Jewish Social Quarterly. The numerous awards won by Prof. Sharfman include the Hor- ace M. Rackham Professor of Economics, University of Michi- gan, 1936-37; James Barr Ames Prize, awarded by the faculty of Harvard Law School. 1939; Henry Russell Lecturer. University of Michigan. 1943. Prof. Sharfman was the co- founder with Henry Hurwitz of the Menorah Movement, which was founded as the Harvard Menorah Society in 1907. He was also co- founder with Hurwitz of the Me- norah Journal. His other Jewish affiliations in- clude: American Jewish Historical Society. American Friends of Heb- rew University, Academic Com- mittee for Hebrew University. Con- ference on Jewish Relations. American Jewish Committee. He was a fellow of the Jewish Agency of Arts and Sciences. and a mem- ber of the board of trustees of Brandeis University. During World War I. Dr. Sharf- man was chairman of the Liberty Loan campaigns conducted among faculty and students. He was ac- tive in scores of activities on the University of Michigan campus. Dr. Seidel helped found the Jew- ish Legion in 1917. He was a pro- moter and supporter of the Work- ers Bank in Tel Aviv. economic arm of Histadrut. He was chair- man of the board of Histadrut for Schloss Old Timers many years, as well as honorary Will Honor Deceased vice president in recent years and The Hannah Schloss Old Timers chairman l of the Baltimore branch. annual memorial service will he held 8 p.m. Thursday in Shiffman Hall of the Jewish Center, an- Nixon Sent Bill to Form Jewish Museum in D.C. nounced Harry T. Madison. presi- WASHINGTON (JTA) — A bill dent of the Hannah Schloss Old Timers, and Harry Pliskow. chair- passed by the Senate and sent to President Nixon for his signature man for the memorial service. may result in the establishment of the first Jewish historical museum in the District of Columbia. The measure authorizes the local government to lease a former synagogue, now designated as a national landmark. to the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Wash- ington for use as a museum. The synagogue was.built between 1873 and 1876 in downtown Wash- ington and for several generations housed the Adas Israel congrega- tion. The congregation moved to a new site after World War II and the old building has been used for many purposes since then in what is now a predominantly Negro neighborhood. The hiStorical society, however, may decide to locate the museum at a different site which the dis- trict government would provide. There has been debate over a new site because of frequent muggings in the old neighborhood. In any event, the D.C. City Council would provide a $60,000 restoration grant to be matched by a sum from the Jewish Historical Society. NEW YORK — Issue of the first two art medals of the series, Me- dallic History of the Jewish People. has been announced by the Judaic Heritage Society. The 3.206 members of the society have received bronze, silver, or platinum proof strikes of medals commemorating the patriarch Ab- raham and Moses the law-giver. The Abraham and Moses medals have been designed by Oscar Har- ris and sculpted by Gilroy Roberts. formerly of the U.S. Mint, and Philip Nathan. formerly of the Royal Mint. respectively. Setting the style for the entire series, the art medals feature an obverse en- tirely without copy. The reverse is devoted to biblical commentary in the manner of inscription in stone. Nazi Streicher's Death Julius Streicher, editor of the The medals. 39 mm. in . diameter. are hallmarked and numbered on viciously anti-Semitic Nazi maga- zine Der Cturmer, was hung by smooth edges. Subscriber rolls to the limited the International Military Tribunal edition five-year series are closed. in Nuremberg on Oct. 15, 1946. He Judaic Heritage Society Secretary participated in Hitler's Beer Hall Fred Bertram has, announced that Putsch in 1923, the same year he a waiting list already exists for founded Der Sturmer. He headed reassignment of any subscription the anti-Semitic campaigns in Rabbi Israel Halpern of Cong. Beth Abraham will deliver the main address. Cantor Shabtai Ackerman will chant the El Male Rahamim. Family and friends are invited to attend the service honoring de- parted members of the Hannah Schloss Old Timers, and to visit the Old Timers Memorial Room at the center which holds a plaque containing names of all departed members, and trophies and me- mentos dating back over 50 years. Refreshments will be served fol- lowing the service. 70—Friday, September 12, 1969 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Dozen Mourners at Funeral Dr. James Pike 'at Peace' in Israel Sitting beside her brother, Richard Scott Kennedy, in Jerusa- lem, Mrs. Diane Pike reads a statement to newsmen after the body of her husband, the former Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, was found on a rocky ledge in the Judean wilderness two miles from the Dead Sea. The lower photo shows the Pikes in 1968. JAFFA (JTA) — Dr. James A. Pike. the former Episcopal bishop of California who died of exhaus- tion in the Judaean desert after becoming lost a week ago. was buried Monday in this biblical seaport town. His widow. Diana Pike. who ac- companied him on his fatal jour- ney to Israel and. later walked a whole night in search of help, said Sunday that her husband had loved the Holy I.and "as if it were his own" and that it would be appro- priate if he were buried there. The 56-year-old cleric. who was a controversial figure at home and a staunch champion of Israel. was interred at St. Peter's Protestant cemetery near where the Bible says the Prophet Jonah set forth on his fateful voyage. The funeral was attended by only a dozen mourners. When the two-car cortege reach- ed the cemetery. there were not enough pallbearers to carry the aluminum coffin draped with black tasselled gold cloth. Five nearby residents along with a local clergy- man and Mrs. Pike's brother car- ried the coffin down the sloping hill to a gravesite overlooking the sea. Dr. Pike's body was discovered Sunday by a volunteer search party of Bedouin tribesmen and Israeli police after a week of fruit- less searching by land and heli- copter. According to the Pathological Institute in Tel Aviv. where an autopsy was performed, Dr. Pike succumbed to fatigue, hunger and Funeral arrangements were made by Mrs. Pike and her brother. Richard Scott Kennedy, after consulting with Dr. Pike's 84-year-old mother in California. Adam Gimbel, Head of Saks Fifth Avenue NEW YORK—Adam L. Gimbel. former president of Saks Fifth Avenue, died Tuesday at age 75. While serving as president. Gim- bel built a nation-wide chain of 31 Saks stores. He retired as presi- dent of the chain last year. In 1924 after his family merged its Memorial Assembly Gimbel store with Horace Saks' for Rabbi Kahanemann, 34th Street store. Gimbel became vice president. Sarno Arranged Here He was an art collector, a world The Vaad Harabonim — Council traveler and an enthusiastic sports- of Orthodox Rabbis of Greater De- man. He also wrote plays and troit invites the Jewish community translated foreign food books. to participate in a memorial as- sembly for two great rabbinical 20,000 Attend Funeral leaders 8 p.m. Wednesday at thirst. The medical examiners said he had been dead since last Tues- day, a little more than a day after he and Mrs. Pike found themselves lost in a trackless wilderness after their car broke down. In Jerusalem Sunday. Mrs. Pike had high praise for Israeli authorities and police. She said they did everything humanly possible to find her husband and could not have been more co- of Noted Talmudist operative. She said her husband "loved the Israeli people and the TEL AVIV (JTA)—Some 20,000 persons, among them Israel's chief'. Holy Land so deeply, I feel there dignitaries, attended the funeral of I is no more appropriate place for the renowned talmudist Rabbi Jo- 1 him to die if he had to die." ■ Young Israel Center of Green- field. Rabbis Joseph Kahanemann and Yeheskel Sarno will be eulogized by members of the Detroit rab- binate and a special guest, Rabbi iseph Kahanemann, who headed She said his last words to her Mordechai Gifter, Dean of the Ye- the Ponevez Yeshiva in Bnai Brak were, "If I die here, I am at peace. 0. near here. He had transferred the I have no regrets." Dr. Pike had shiva at Telshe, Wickliffe, Rabbi Kahanemann was well yeshiva to Israel from Lithuania visited Israel several times in con- known in Detroit circles from his after World War II. : neetion with his ministry and in frequent visits to this city on be- Among those present were cabi- behalf of Jewish and Zionist half of his vast Torah projects in net members, Israel's chief rabbis, causes. On his last trip he was I heads of yeshivot and deans of • gathering material for a book on Bnai Brak and Ashdod, Israel. Rabbi Sarno, a renowned Tal- rabbinical courts, the army's , chief the origins of Christianity which mudic scholar was head of Hebron chaplain and many others:. He had he planned to write in collabora- that might be released by the °rig- . Franconia from 1933 until his cap- Yeshiva in Jerusalem for many been a member of the Lithuanian tion with his wife. Mrs. Pike said I parliament. inal subscribers.' ' - ' ' • "I lure b•y'Allied Forces in 1945. Years. she would finish the book alone.