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Friday, December 3, 1976

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

U-M Prof. Yon Barna Dies,
Ex-Romanian Filmmaker

Prof. Yon Barna, a vis-
iting professor of English
at the University of
Michigan, died Nov. 28 at
age 49.
A native of Romania,
Prof. Barna and his wife
left their native country,
where they were victims
of anti-Semitism. They
moved to Israel and two
years ago came to the

U.S.

Prof. Barna was a film
historian and directed
and produced more than
100 films and TV, produc-
tions in Romania before
he and his wife immi-
grated.
Associated with the uni-
versity since 1974, Prof.
Barna taught about
avant-garde cinema, prop-

aganda and film. He pub-
lished books on movie di-
rectors Sergei Einstein
and Eric von Stroheim and
was completing a definit-
ive biography and critical
examination of von
Stroheim.
Prof. Barna was a judge
in international TV and
film festivals. He also was
the head of the cinema di-
vision at a Bicentennial
conference on American
influence on Europe. He
resided at 2205
Brockman, Ann Arbor.
He is survived by his
wife, Marika; and a
daughter, Mrs. Itzhack
(Orit) Nachman of New
York City. Interment
Ann Arbor.

Attorney Harry Pliskow Dies,
Active in Jewish Community

Harry L. Pliskow, a De-
troit attorney for 48
years, died Nov. 25 at age
69.
A native Detroiter, Mr.
Pliskow was a founding
member and past presi-
dent of Temple Israel. He
served as president from
1965-67, and it was during
his administration that
the temple celebrated its
25th anniversary by
burning the mortgage on
its present building.
Mr. Pliskow also was
president of the Temple
Israel Brotherhood. Only
recently, he was honored
HARRY PLISKOW
by the temple brother-
hood by being made a life
member of the Jewish Hannah Schloss Old Tim-
ers.
Chautauqua Society.
He was also affiliated
A graduate of the De-
troit College of Law, Mr. with Bnai Brith, Crisis
Pliskow was a member of Club, the Elks and the
the American, Michigan, National Association for
Detroit and Southfield the Advancement of Col-
Bar associations and was ored People.
Mr. Pliskow, who re-
licensed to practice before
sided at 23300 Providence
the Supreme Court.
A graduate of the De- Dr., Southfield, is sur-
troit College of Law, Mr. vived by his wife, Celina;
Pliskow was a member of a step-son, Dr. Richard
the American, Michigan, Weber of Flint; three
Detroit and Southfield daughters, Mrs. Ted
Bar associations and was (Marcia) Taylor, of Hun-
licensed to practice be- tington Beach, Calif.,
Barbara and Diane; a
fore the Supreme Court.
He was a 33rd degree brother, John (Jack); a
Mason in the Scottish sister, Mrs. Fred (Mollie)
Rite Blue Lodge, and was Leibson; and four grand-
a past president of the children.

Peruvian Jewish
Journalist Dies

Rabbi Philip Alstat,
Prison Chaplain

NEW YORK (JTA) — NEW YORK — Rabbi
Roberto Feldman, dean of Philip R. Alstat, the
Jewish journalists in Jewish chaplain at the
Peru,
in Lima at age
Manhattan
House of Cor-
75. died
rection
who
retired
in
1974 after 30 years in that
Mr.
Feldman
was
editor
of Nuestro Mundo which post, died NOV. 29 at age
85.
he founded in 1931 as a
A native of Lithuania,
monthly magazine called the Rabbi Alstate held
Nosotros.
several pulpits and
During the 1930s and served as unofficial rabbi
1940s it was considered to the students of the
one of the best Jewish Jewish Theological Semi-
publications in Spanish. nary on whose campus he
It later became a news- lived.
paper and several years
ago Feldman changed the
The so-called " Arabic
name to Nuestro Mundo.
numerical system was
Born in the Ukraine, brought to the Arabs
Mr. Feldman came to from India by aJew in the
Peru in 1924. He was a Eighth Century, and
founding member of the transmitted from the
Zionist Organization of Arabs to Christian
Peru and was a member Europe in the 11th Cen-
of Poalei Zion. tury by Jewish converts.

.Shmuel Tamir, Israel's Maverick Politician

By UZI BENZIMAN
and DAVID LANDAU

(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)

Shmuel Tamir, one of
the most controversial
Israeli parliamentarians,
recently decided to quit
the Likud bloc and to
function in the Knesset as
an independent faction.
Tamir, with a young
Knesseter, Akiva Nof,
comprise the "Merkaz
Hofshi" (Free Center
Party) in the Knesset —
until now a component of
the Likud.
Tamir's decision was
followed soon after by
Arik Sharon's dramatic
announcement that he,
too, was leaving the
Likud and striking out on
his own in a challenge for
the Premiership.
The loss of these two
forceful personalities —
both of them potential
vote-getters — has been a
tough blow for the Likud.
Explaining the decision
to forsake the Likud,
Tamir attacked "the
one-man-leadership in
the Likud," hinting at
Herut veteran leader
Menachem Begin. Tamir
claimed that the Herut
Party dominates the
Likud bloc and con-
sequently exerts the pre-
dominant influence over
the bloc's policy. __
He criticized the Likud's
rigid views on foreign .af-
fairs and on relations with
the Palestinians. Tamir,
who after the Six-Day War
had coined the slogan,
"Liberated territories
shall not be returned,"
said that the Likud ought
to have changed its out-
look after the Yom Kippur
War.
He now declared his
own readiness for territo-
rial concessions in the
context of a peace agree-
ment. Tamir's objections
to the Likud platform and
his personal frustration
within the bloc had
caused him to quit, he in-
dicated.

Tamir's decision is
another move in a long
and checkered political
career which has re-
flected many an ideologi-
cal zig-zag. He began his
political activity in the
pre-state period as a
member of the militant
underground movement,
Etzel (Irgun) , com-
manded by Begin.
After the establish-
ment of the state, Tamir,
with the other Etzel ac-
tivists, founded Herut.
During the fifties he won
national fame as a politi-
cal lawyer who chal-
lenged the establishment
in a number of celebrated
trials.
His vocal war against
corruption in the estab-
lishment brought , him
closer to Uri Avneri, the
editor of the anti-
establishment weekly
"Haolam Haze." For a
short time, Tamir was in-
fluenced by Avneri's views
and became one of the
ideologues of "Semitic ac-
tivity" — a political move-
ment which urged the in-
terweaving of Israel into
the Middle East by em-
phasizing the common her-
itage of Israelis and
Arabs.
Later, Tamir quit Av-
neri in order to establish
an independent party
called "The New
Regime." After a few -
years he rejoined Herut,
plainly aiming to become
Begin's heir in the party's
leadership.
Endowed with great
oratorical skills and an
attractive personality,
Tamir's ambition in this
direction seemed natural
enough. But a few years
later he again abandoned
Herut claiming that
Begin ran the party au-
tocratically barring all
others from any mean-
ingful leadership role.
Tamir established once
again an independent
party, called "The Free
Center," which repre-

Revco Drugs Founder Dies

Bernard Shulman,
founder of the Revco dis-
count drug chain who had
been missing for the past
six months, was found
dead Sunday in a San
Francisco hotel where he
had resided since Oct. 17.
He was 51.
A former Detroiter, Mr.
Shulman began the
multi-million dollar
Revco drugstore chain 20
years ago. He sold his
interests in Revco for a

BERNARD SHULMAN

SHMUEL TAMIR

sented an extreme right-
ist position.
A few days before the
1973 elections, he joined
the Likud bloc, which had
been molded out of the
parties of the right and
center largely by the ef-
forts of Sharon. The
Likud won 39 seats in the
Knesset — less than its
founders had hoped for —
and certainly not enough
to form a government or
pose a credible threat to
Labor's hegemony. Tamir
soon made it known that
he was unhappy in his
new political framework.
He began voicing political
views that obviously de-
viated from the Likud
platform.
Sometimes Tamir would
sound like the Labor gov-
ernment's echo. Contrary
to the Likud's official
stance, he supported the
interim agreement with
Egypt and the disengage-
ment pact with the Sy-
rians. He openly declared
his readiness to reach a
territorial compromise —
should the Arabs sign a
peace contract with Israel
— a far cry from "Liber-
ated territories shall not
be returned."
Tamir's new political
views, to which he attrib-
uted the change in inter-
national circumstances
created by the Yom Kip-

pur War and his personal
temperament, drew down
on him the anger of the
Likud's leaders.
They accused him of
cynical and unrestrained
ambition and with an op-
portunistic approach to
politics. They liked
neither his ambitions nor
his arrogance. He, on the
other hand, accused them
of humble yielding —
against their own better
judgement — to Begin's
ideological dogmatism.
He claimed that they
would never come to
power in this way.
)
Tamir may now se.
mold yet another
political formation. Quite
possibly, he may be count-
ing on the emergence, in
advance of the Knesset
elections next year, of a
new centrist bloc, com-
prising a number of new
and older-established
political groupings. Such
a development appears
ever more likely as time
passes.

The Independent Lib-
eral Party's apparently ir-
revocable decision to leave
the coalition within the
coming weeks seems to in-
dicate the same trend. The
ILP would certainly be a
main component of a cen-
trist bloc, should one arise.
Other likely partici-
pants would be Shulamit
Aloni's Civil Rights
Party; Shinui, an organi-
zation fOrmed after the
last elections by liberals
and academics; and a new
grouping led by Yigael
Yadin called the Demo-
cratic Movement. If Sha-
ron, too, decided to team
up with this nascent
force -- and if the other
participants decided they
wanted the unpredictable
Sharon — the electoral -
pulling-power of the bloc
could radically change
the state of Israeli poli-
tics by providing, at least,
a much-needed third
force between left and
right.

Dr. Edwin Cohen

Dr. Edwin L. Cohen,
reported $1.5 million in
1967 and retired with his professor of internal med-
wife, Terry, to La Jolla, icine at the University of
Calif. Mr. Shulman began Michigan Medical School,
the chain with four stores died Nov. 23 at age 45:
Dr. Cohen was gradu-
in 1956. Today, Revco has
ated summa cum laude
864 outlets in 21 states.
-He became president from the University of
and chief executive officer Chicago and received his
of a discount department medical degree with hon-
store chain in May 1974, ors at Northwestern Uni-
but left that post after six versity Medical School.
months for personal rea- He did his medical train-
at U-M Medical
sons, a family spokesman ing
said. Mr. Shulman started School and later joined its
Bernie Shulman's Dis- faculty.
count Drugs 18 months
He was a fellow of the
ago in Cleveland.
American College of
Mr. Shulman was Physicians, a member of
Omega Alpha Med-
graduated from Wayne Alpha
State University and its ical Fraternity, Endoc-
rine Society, Central So-
pharmacy school.
ciety of Clinical Research
Besides his wife, Mr. and the American Feder-
Shulman is survived by a ation for Clinical Re-
son, Larry of Ann Arbor; search. He resided at 2705
four daughters, Mrs. N. Wagner Rd., Ann Ar-
Earle (Beth) Erman and bor.
Mrs. Barry (Nancy) Lef-
Dr. Cohen is survived
kowitz, both of Troy; and
Mrs. Guy (Shelly) Bishop by his wife, Sara; his
and Coleen, both of Cleve- mother, Mrs. Ben
land; and his mother, (Fanny) Pollack of Miami
Mrs. Sylvia Knoppow of Beach, Fla.; and a sister,
Oak Park. Interment De- Mrs. Sally Silver of
Philadelphia.
troit.

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