54 May 21, 1976
People
Make News
Russian Jew Seeks Relative
nette Epstein Victorchik are
requested to call Beverly
Yost at the • Council,
962-1880.
The Jewish Community
Council of Metropolitan
Detroit is seeking the rela-
tive of Sonia Bozhenova, nee
Storobener, of Moscow be-
lieved to be living in Detroit.
The relative, born An-
nette Epstein, left Bobruisk
in 1913 and was known to
have married Solomon Vic-
torchik. It is believed that
the Victorchiks have several
children who may reside in
the Detroit area. Sonia
Bozhenova's father, Leo,
was related to Solomon Vic-
torchik.
Mrs. Bozhenova also is
seeking a cousin, Henry
Starr. It was believed that
Starr resided in Sherman
Oaks, Calif., however at-
tempts to locate him there
were unsuccessful.
Persons with information
on the whereabouts of An-
Young Israel Gets
Job Training Aid
NEW YORK (JTA) — An-
other year-long contract to
provide on-the-job training
for 600 jobless persons has
been awarded to the Na-
tional Council of Young Is-
rael, the association of Or-
thodox congregations.
Funding for such pro-
grams is provided under the
federal Comprehensive Em-
ployment and Training Act
(CETA). Allocation of the
funds is determined by the
city employment depart-
ment.
Gary Torgow, a 1974
graduate of Akiva Hebrew
Day School, has been
elected to the senate of
Yeshiva University, and will
serve through his junior and
senior years.
* * *
Scott Silver recently
graduated from the West-
ern State University College
of Law in California.
* * *
Dr. Elizabeth Fischer,
Dr. Gertrude Gordon and
Gertrude Kasle will be
among the women honored
Saturday at the Women of
Wayne State University Al-
umni Association's 10th an-
nual headliner awards
luncheon at the Detroit Golf
Club.
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Simon Insoft, a practicing
cantor in Boston from 1940
to 1965, died in Detroit May
13 at age 75. He resided in
Detroit for the past five
years.
Born in Russia, Cantor
Insoft was a member of
Cong. Bnai Israel-Beth Ye-
hudah, Young Israel of
Greenfield, Cong. Beth Te-
filo Emanuel Tikvah, the
Jewish Culture Club at the
Oak Park Community Cen-
ter, the Hebrew Free Loan
Association, the National
Council of Senior Citizens
and the Jewish National
Fund. He resided at 15100
W. 10 Mile, Oak Park.
He leaves two sons, Sid-
ney of Randolph, Mass., and
Dr. Joseph of St. Peters-
burg, Fla.; a daughter, Mrs.
Harry (Dorothy) Roer; a
brother, Louis of Boston;
two sisters, Mrs. Dave
(Betty) Peltz and Mrs. Bar-
ney (Molly) Mason, both of
Boston; and nine grandchil-
dren.
Soviet Delegation
to Israel Has Jew
Among Members
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Simon Insoft, 75,
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TEL AVIV (JTA) — A
three-member delegation
from the Soviet Union —
one Jew among them — told
Israelis that the USSR is
convinced that Israeli-Arab
co-existence is possible and
is working toward that end.
They also suggested that
Israelis are needlessly fear-
ful and pessimistic over
chances of a settlement with
their neighbors. They found
fault, not with the princi-
ples of democracy in Israel
but with the political com-
petitiveness they claimed
hampered the decision-mak-
ing process.
The delegation came to
Israel at the invitation of
the pro-Moscow Rakah
Communist Party to at-
tend the annual memorial
in the Red Army Forest
near Jerusalem marking
the Allied victory over
Nazi Germany.
The visitors contended
that a renewal of formal
diplomatic relations be-
tween Israel and the Soviet
Union was unwarranted
unless significant progress
toward peace is made. A
renewal of relations now
would not change anything
but would undermine Soviet
credibility with some of the
Arabs and this might harm
efforts to find a solution of
the Middle East conflict,
they said.
Author Marc Slonim Dies
NEW YORK — Marc
Slonim, the Russian-born
American critic and author
who enjoyed an interna-
tional reputation as an ex-
pert on European literature
died May 8 at age 82.
Mr. Slonim, a professor
emeritus of Sarah Lawrence
College since 1962, was a
prolific writer who turned
out over the years more
than a dozen books and
hundreds of magazine arti-
cles.
Mr. Slonim was educated
in Russia and was exiled for
his anti-Communist beliefs.
He received a doctoral de-
gree from the University of
Florence in 1920, then
moved to Prague, where he
taught at the Russian Uni-
versity there and edited an
emigre monthly.
In 1932 he went to Paris
where he was a successful
writer and lecturer often
invited to speak in several
European universities. He
moved in 1941 to the U.S.
Marc Slonim
which granted him citizen-
ship in 1957.
Mr. Slonim joined the'
ulty of Sarah Lawrence
lege in 1943 and after his -
tirement from Sarah
Lawrence in 1962, he served
as the college's director of
foreign studies and for sev-
eral years headed a summer
school conducted by Sarah
Lawrence College in Flor-
ence.
Statistical Expert, Dr. Leo Katz
Dr. Leo Katz, a renowned
statistician and member of
the Michigan State Univer-
sity faculty since 1946, died
in Israel May 6 at age 61.
A native Detroiter, Prof.
Katz was a founder of the
MSU Department of Statis-
tics and Probability and was
its first chairman from 1956
to 1963. He also was a con-
sultant to industrial and
governmental agencies.
He was a fellow of several
statistical societies, includ-
ing the Institute of Mathe-
matical Statistics, where he
was executive secretary
from 1968 to 1973 and as ed-
itor of its bulletin from 1972
to 1974. Since 1959, Prof.
Katz .was director of the
Statistical Laboratory at
MSU where he functioned
as principal investigator on
research contracts with the
National Science Founda-
tion. He also was active in
Dr. Shlomo Bardin,
Institute Founder
BRANDEIS, Calif. (JTA)
— Dr. Shlomo Bardin, foun-
der and director of the
Brandeis Camp Institute,
who died May 16 at age 78.
Dr. Bardin was born in
Zhitomer, Russia and lived
in Palestine from 1919 to
1939. He studied at Colum-
bia University in New York
where he received his docto-
rate in 1932. After settling
in the United States in 1939
he met U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
According to Dr. Max W.
Shipping Magnate Bayh, president of the Bran-
deis Camp Institute, it was
Likes Israel Port
the late Justice Brandeis
who inspired Dr. Bardin to
ASHDOD (ZINS)
Texas shipping magnate establish the institute to
I.D. Stone, who brought 124 inculcate American Jewish
pre-fabricated units to Is- college youth with Jewish
rael for the American techn- values and Judaism.
The institute was founded
icians stationed in Sinai,
chose to deliver his cargo to in 1941 in the east and sub-
the Israeli Port of Ahdod sequently moved to Califor-
rather than to the Egyptian nia. Privately funded, it cur-
rently provides one-month
facilities at Port Said.
He did this after investi- summer programs for col-
gating conditions at both lege-age and younger stu-
ports and decided that the dents and weekend pro-
facilities and services of the grams for adults the year
round.
Israeli port were superior.
research with the Tobacco
Research Council, the Office
of Naval Research and the
Michigan Consumers Coun-
cil.
Dr. Katz's research fo-
cused on the application of
statistics to business and
biological problems. He
also worked with statisti-
cal information theory to
diagnose medical prob-
lems, specifically cancer.
One project in which he
was involved concentrated
upon the use of high speed
computers in evaluating
cobalt therapy for deep
tumors.
Dr. Katz is listed in
"Who's Who in America"
and "American Men of
Science," among others.
At his death he was on
sabbatical in Israel as visit-
ing professor at the faculty
of industrial and manage-
ment engineering at Tech-
nion.
He is survived by his wife,
Jennie; a son, Michael; his
father, Ben Stern of Miami,
Fla.; two brothers, William
Katz of San Diego and Har-
old Stern of Southfield; and
three grandchildren. Inter-
ment East Lansing.
Isaac Kaplan, 97
Zionist Pioneer
BUENOS AIRES (i ).
— Isaac Kaplan, a pioneer
in Jewish colonialization in
Argentina and a veteran in
the South American Zionist
movement, died at age 97.
Born in Poland, Kaplan
came to Argentina in 1 "q
and settled in the E
Rios Province. He was an or-
ganizer of agricultural coop-
eratives and was editor of
the Cooperator Colonialist
from 1921-46.
Kaplan was a former
president of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund of Argentina
and the Argentine Zionist
Federation. He was the au-
thor of several books, in-
cluding one on the Jewish
colonialization movement
and one on biblical commen-
tary.