46 Friday, July 22, 1977

Lew Levitt, 73

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Nathan I. Reznick

Lew Levitt, retired found-
Nathan I. Reznick, re-
er and past president of tired kosher meat dealer,
Levitt Brothers Co., died died July 17 at age 73.
July 14 at age 73.
Born in Poland, Mr. Rez-
Born in Russia, Mr. Lev- nick was a kosher meat de-
itt's company operated de- laer from 1920 to 2965. He
partments in 28 K-mart was a member of Cong.
stores. His company merg- Shaarey Zedek and its
ed with Sherwin-Williams men's club, and the Retired
Paint in 1967.
Businessman's Club of the
Prior to founding his corn- Jewish Community Center.
pany in 1961, Mr. Levitt
He leaves his wife, Ida; a
was the owner of several son, Dr. Gerald of Grand
companies involved in the Blanc; a daughter, Mrs.
soft drink industry. He was Roger (Blanche) Robinson;
a member of the Crescent and six grandchildren.
Shrine Club and Marshall-
Suburban Lodge of Bnai
Eric Jay Pelzner
Brith. He resided at 20728
Eric Jay Pelzner, a pho-
Knob Woods Dr., South-
tographer associated with
field.
He leaves two sons, Mark E.J. Studios, Inc., died July
and Donald; three brothers, 14 at age 19._
A native Detroit, Mr. Pel-
David and Kelly of In-
dianapolis, Ind., and Mike zner was a photographer
of Los Angeles, Calif.; two for Oakland University
sisters, Mrs. Harold (Es- where he was a student ad-
He was graduated
ther) Marks and Mrs. Rae viser.
Oak Park High School
Kelman; and two grand- from
in 1976. He resided at 22030
daughters.
Marlow, Oak Park.
He leaves his parents,
Jack Rosenberg Mr.
and Mrs. Mervin (Mick-
Jack Rosenberg, vice ey) Pelzner; a sister, Mrs.
president of Friendship Ma- Daniel (Susan) Stettner of
terials, Inc., builder's sup- Dayton, Ohio; and his
ply, died July 18 at age 58.
grandmother, Mrs. Edward
A native Detroiter, Mr. (Ida) Gerson.
Rosenberg was a member
David Weinberg
of Perfection Lodge of the
Masons, Brandeis Lodge of
David Weinberg, a dental
Bnai Brith, Jewish War Vet- technician and owner of Da-
erans, and Tam-O-Shanter vid Weinberg Dental Labo-
Country Club. He resided at ratories in Detroit, died
24531 Connecticut, South- July 14 at at age 72.
field. -- --
Born in Wisconson, Mr.
He leaves his wife, Char- Weinberg was an Oak Park
lotte; a daughter, Mrs. San- resident prior to moving to
ford (Ronna) Litinsky; his Columbus, Ohio, two years
mother, Mrs. Aaron (Ida) ago. He was a member of
Rosenberg; and four broth- Craftsman Lodge of the
ers, Lester, Al, Nat and Ed- Masons.
ward.
He leaves hiw wife, Jose-
phine; two daughters, Mrs.
Robert Levinson Arnold (Jeanette) Berger of
and Mrs. Her-
Robert Levinson, director Columbus
(Betty) Sherline of
of salaried personnel at the man
two brothers in
Burroughs Corp., died July Southfield;
California
and
six grand-
19 at age 46.
children. Interment Detroit.
Born in Newport News,
Va. Mr. Levinson was asso-
Martin L. Jacobs
ciated with the corporation
for 21 years. He was gradu-
Martin L. (Morey) Ja-
ated from the University of cobs, retired past president
Virginia where he was elect- of Superior Tool and Die in
ed to Phi Beta Kappa honor- Detroit, died July 18 at age
ary society. He earned his 79.
master's degree from the
Born in Russia, Mr.
Wharton School of Finance.
Jacobs leaves two daugh-
He was a member of Adat ters, Mrs. Vivian Smith of
Shalom Synagogue.
Miami, Fla., and Mrs. Ar-
Mr. Levinson leaves his thur (Gloria) August; a
wife, Marilyn; a son, Chip;
brother, Sam D. ; a sister,
two daughters, Lisa E. and Mrs. Reva Tenzer; and
Kathy L.- ; his mother, Mrs.
four grandchildren.
Charles (Bessie) Levinson
of Newport News; and two
brothers, Leonard and Har- Scoutmaster
old, both of Virginia.

Gertrude Lewin

Gertrude F. Lewin, a
member of Jewish women's
and communal organiza-
tions, died July 15 at age
77.
Born in Poland, Mrs.
Lewin lived 36 years in De-
troit. She was a member of
Cong. Beth Achim and its
sisterhood, Club One of Pio-
neer Women, Jewish Nation-
al Fund and the Labor Zion-
ist Alliance.
She leaves her husband,
Solomon; a son, Stanley;
two brothers, Louis Fox
and Hyman Fox of Brook-
lyn, N.Y.; a - sister, Mrs.
Nathan (Frances) Center of
Los Angeles, Calif.; three
grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren .

Receives Honor

Chief Scout Executive of
the National Office of the
Boy Scouts of America re-
cently recognized Nathan
Trager, scoutmaster of
Troop 23, as a "Leader of
Distinction." Trager has
been a scout and leader in
to Boy Scout program for
50 years and has been con-
tinously serving as scout-
master for 45 years, under
the sponsorship of its
alumni association which
has been affiliated with the
Hannah Schloss Old
Timers.
As scoutmaster of Troop
23, Trager was honored by
the Jewish Committee on
Scouting with the Shofar
Award, -for his service to
the scouts in their religious
program."

Noteworthy Ilebraisms in Bible Translations'

By ALLEN A. WARSEN

Numerous studies have
been made of the Hebr-
aisms in Bible translations.
The best known are Wil-
liam Rosenau's "Hebraisms
in the Authorized Versions
of the Bible" and Max L.
Margolies' "The Story of
Bible Translations." The lat-
est study is Fred Heuman's
"The Uses of Hebraisms in
Recent Bible Translations"
(Philosophical Library).
Heuman's study is con-
cerned with the "remolding
of the receptor language of
the Hebrew Gestalt, that is,
the kneading of the English
language into a Hebraic
mold." It is not concerned
with the transfer of Hebrew
terms, such as "amen,"
"hallelujah," "messiah,"
"Sabbath," into English bib-
lical translations.
Heuman, moreover, en-
deavors to show the extent
to which the Jewish Pub-
lication Society's (JPS) edi-
tion of 1917; "The New Eng-
lish Bible" (NE) of the
Protestant Church of Eng-
land; and "The New Ameri-
can Bible" (NA) of the
American Roman Catholic
Church in America (19'70)
have retained, changed, or
completely discarded the
Hebraisms of the King
James, the Authorized Ver-
sion (AV) of 1611.
The study examines only
the Book of Psalms as it is
"projected against the back-
ground of Jewish, Protes-
tant and Roman Catholic
concerns."
The book consists of five
chapters, a bibliography,
notes, references, and an
index of Psalm phrases.
The chapter "The Holy
Scriptures According to the
Masoretic Text" deals with
the Hebraisms of the JPS
version' and provides a
chronological sketch of the
German-Jewish and Eng-
lish-Jewish Bible trans-
lations. Thus the first Ger-
man-Jewish translation was
made by Moses Mendelsohn
and his Biurists (com-
mentators). It is worth not-
ing that there were earlier
translations, such as the
Witzenhauser (Amsterdam,
1679), but they were in Ger-
man-Yiddish and printed in
Hebrew characters.
Of the - English-Jewish
translations, the first was

made in 1851-56 by Abra-
ham Benish (1911-1878), the
forerunner of the Zionist
movement and founder of
the Anglo-Jewish periodical
"The Jewish Chronicle."

About the same time
(1853), Isaac Leeser's com-
plete text of the Hebrew
Scriptures in English ap-
peared in Philadelphia.
Fifty-two years later, Mi-
chael Friedlander's
"slightly retouched King
James version" was pub-
lished.
A few Hebraisms in the
JPS illustrate the author's
method of analysis and com-
parison:
(JPS) "Out of the mouths
of babes and sucklings"
(Psalm) 8:3.
A Hebraism par excel-
lence, taken over from
AV's "out of the mouths of
babes and sucklings. "NA
follows with the same word-
ing, and so does NE, except
for changing "and suck-
lings" to "infants at the
breast."
(JPS) "The Lord is his
refuge" (Psalm) 14:6.
All three versions have
this Hebraism strengthen
its usage in English by
means of this repeated use
in translations.
(JPS) "Keep me as the
apple of the eye" (Psalm)
17:8.
This is a most significant
Hebraism...used _by all the
three versions with slight
variations...NE has "keep
me as the apple of thine
eye," and NA has "keep
me as the apple of your
eye."
The author also follows
the method of analysis and
comparison in the chapters
"The Protestant Trans-
lations" and "The Roman
Catholic Bible Trans-
lations."
In addition, the author re-_
lates interesting episodes
about the English trans-
lations. William Tyndale (b.
1492?), English theologian
and translator of the Bible,
was strangled and burned
at the stake the same year
(1536) Anne Boyleyn, sec-
ond wife of Henry VIII of
England and mother of
Elizabeth I, was beheaded
in the Tower of London.
John Rogers, publisher of
Tyndale's translation, was

NPS Represented in Detroit
at Library Association Event

The Jewish Publication Society of America

executed in 1555. The pur-
pose of the King James
Bible was "to bring about a
religious- reconciliation in
the realm between the
churches using the "Bish-
op's Bible" and the people
using the "Geneva Bible."
Incidentally, the King
James Bible (Cambridge
University Edition), has "a
reference in its preface to
the 'wicked Jews." In 1631

Milliken Israel Support Cited

rl

Gov. William G. Milliken received two souvenir books of
memorabilia relating to his participation in and economic
support of Israel's economic development program
through State of Israel Bonds at a recent private reception
in Detroit. Presenting the folios are, from left: David Pol-
lack, immediate past president of Metropolitan Detroit
State of Israel Bonds; and Sam Cohodas, honorary chair-
man of the Michigan Committee for State of Israel Bonds.

Israeli Soldiers' Remains Returned

SINAI
NORTHERN
(JTA)—Egypt returned to
Israel Tuesday the remains
of 19 Israeli soldiers silled
in the Yom Kippur War.
The remains were brought
by truck convoy to a UN
outpost in the buffer zone of
the sun-baked Sinai Desert
and transferred with full
military honors.
On hand to receive them
were defense minister Ezer
Weizman, Chief of Staff
Gen. Mordehai Gur and
the commanding general of
the southern region. UN sol-
diers stood at attention as
an Egyptian contingent pre-
sented the coffins to an Is-

raeli honor guard. The
chief chaplain of the Israeli
army, Rabbi Gad Navon re-
cited the Kadish.

The remains were taken
to the Institute of Forensic
Medicine in Tel Aviv for
positive identification. Ac-
cording to the Egyptians,
they were discovered dur-
ing excavations to widen
the Suez Canal. Some Is-
raeli circles insist that only
14 Yom Kippur War dead
are still missing and be-
lieve the figure of 19 may
be due to an error by the
Egyptians. The experts will
try to solve the puzzle.

Israel, Latins Sign Culture Pact

LIMA, Peru (JTA)—A cul-
tural, scientific and artistic
exchange program between
Peru and Israel for 1977-78
was signed here July 8 by
representatives of the two
governments.
Israeli Ambassador Aba
Gefen, director of the cul-
tural and scientific affairs
division of Israel's Foreign
Ministry, said that it was
the first time that represen-
tatives of the Peruvian and
Israeli governments got to-
gether to elaborate a con-
crete program to imple-
ment the cultural accord
both signed in 1962.
At the ceremony, Am-

Yitzhak Danziger

Bernard I. Levinson, right, executive vice president of
The Jewish Publication Society of America, and Michael
Keresztesi, professor of library science at Wayne State
University, discuss JPS publications in the society's booth
at the recent American Library Association convention in
Detroit.

the "Wicked Bible" ap-
peared. It got its name be-
cause it did not include
"not" in the seventh Com-
mandment.
The study "The Uses of
Hebraisms in Recent Bible
Translations" reflects exten-
sive research and has schol-
arly merits. Its author, Dr.
Fred Heuman, is a member
of the faculties of Baruch
and Touro Colleges.

TEL AVIV (JTA)—Prof.
Yitzhak Danziger, a noted
sculptor and parks planner,
61, was killed last week
when his car was struck by
a truck. His son and the
driver of the truck were se-
riously injured.

bassador Carlos Jimenez, di-
rector of the cultural af-
fairs department of Peru's
Foreign Ministry, signed
the agreement on behalf of
his government.
Before coming to Lima,
Gefen signed similar ex-
change programs with rep-
resentatives- of the Uru-
guayan and Argentinian gov-
ernments in Montevideo_
,and Buenos Aires.

Hebrew U. Elects
First Woman Dean

REHOVOT—Prof. Yehu-
dit Birk has been elected
dean of the Hebrew Univer-
sity's Faculty of Agricul-
ture, for a three-year term
starting with the coming ac-
ademic year (autumn 1977).
She will succeed Prof.
Isaac Harpaz. Prof. Birk is
the first woman in the his-
tory of the Hebrew Univer-
sity to serve as a faculty
dean.

