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Jack L. Menuck, founder
and president of Curtis
Building Co., died Feb. 1 at
age 68.
Born in Poland, Mr.
Menuck lived 53 years in
Detroit. He founded his
company in 1945. Mr.
Menuck was a member of
Adat Shalom Syangogue
and the Builders Associa-
tion of Metropolitan De-
troit. He resided at 20625
Northome, Southfield.
He leaves his wife, Rose;
three sons, Allen, Dr. Leslie
of Solana Beach, Calif., and
Melvin; two sisters, Mrs.
Ethel Benjamin and Mrs.
Sam (Ida) Mazell; and six
grandchildren.
chairman and treasurer of
the Hudson Pulp and Paper
Corp- ., a company which re-
sulted with the merger of
his own business with _his
father's company.
He was active in efforts on
behalf of Jewish causes, in-
cluding the United Jewish
Appeal, Hebrew University
and Yeshiva University.
In the 1950s, he was
chairman of the Ameri-
can Israeli Paper Mills, a
- Sally Brontman
company that was Is-
rael's only major domes-
tic source of paper. Its
mill, in Hadera, was on
the Mediterranean Coast,
between Tel Aviv and
Haifa. Members of the
Mazer family were prime
movers in the Israeli pro-
ject, which was financed
mainly by United States
Isaac, Irma and Victoria
Poltinnikov of Novosibirsk,
Russia, have received exit
visas for Israel, it was an-
nounced locally by Cong.
Beth Shalom which had
adopted the family in 1973.
The news came Feb. 1
from the Student Struggle
for Soviet Jewry and the
Union of Councils for Soviet
Jews, who said the Poltin-
nikov case had been one of
the longest known cases of
refusals.
daughter,
Another
Eleanora Shifrin, was
granted an exit visa in 1972,
and lives in Israel with her
husband and daughter,
Poltinnikov, an
ophthalmologist, was a
retired colonel in the
Soviet Army. Following
the family's application
for exit visas, Poltinnikov
was stripped of his rank
and military pension on
which the family lived.
NEW YORK — Celia
Adler
Forman, a noted ac-
Sally Brontman, a part-
ner in Morris Sklare and tress in the Yiddish theater.
Co., wholesale drapery fab- who earned the name "the
first lady of the Yiddish
rics, died Feb. 1 at age 58.
A native. Detroiter, Mrs. theater" died Jan. 31 at age
Brontman resided at 24331 89.
Mrs. Forman was the
Dante, Oak Park. She
leaves her husband, Henry; daughter of Jacob P. Adler;
two daughters, Shelley of the famous tragedian of the
New York and Marcy; her Yiddish stage, who founded
mother, Mrs. Morris (Mary) a theatrical dynasty that
Sklare; and a sister, Mrs. included Stella, Luther and
Jay Adler, her half sister
William (Shirley) Jacobs.
an exit visa since he first
applied for one in 1972.
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Soviets Halt Art
Show, Refusenik
Role Is Blamed
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interests.
In 1955, he was awarded
an honorary_ degree from
Hebrew University and in
honor of his late father, he
donated the Abraham
Mazer Building for the In-
stitute of Jewish Studies
and the Abraham Mazer
Scholarship to the univer-
sity.
Celia Adler Forman Dies,
Leading Yiddish Actress
Soviets Release Poltinnikov Family
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NEW YORK —Joseph M.
Mazer, a leader in the paper
converting business and
chairman of American Is-
raeli Paper Mills, died Feb.
3 at age 79.
Mr. Mazer was honorary
I DO IT ALL
30 years experience.
Leader in U.S., Israel Paper Industry, Joseph Mazer Dies
A poetry reading by
former Soviet dissident
Josef Brodsky and a quote
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
in a promotional brochure
have angered the Soviet
Union and its has cancelled
the apperaance of a travel-
ing art exhibit that was to
appear at the University of
Michigan beginning Feb. 16
during the university's
Russian arts festival.
University officials said
the Soviets regard Brodsky
and Solzhenitsyn as unac-
ceptable as representatives
of Russian art and culture.
The Brodsky reading was
scheduled to take place be-
fore the festival ended.
and half brothers.
Accordig to the New York
Times, __Mrs. Forman
created the leading roles in
the Yiddish versions of the
plays of Hauptmann,
Sudermann and Ibsen and
appeared in Yiddish pro-
duction§ of Shakespearean
tragedies.
In 1918, she helped
open the first Yiddish Art
Theater at the Irving
Place Theater. She
played in nearly every
European capital and in
South America through-
out her career.
She also earned acclaim
for her roles in English lan-
guage productions. Mrs.
Forman wrote the two-
volume "The Yiddish Thea-
ter in America."
THE POLTINNIKOV FAMILY
His wife, Irma, a car- Babi -Yar in 1973, brought
diologist, and daughter, to Moscow, searched and
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Victoria, a radiologist, were sent by train to
Drains, Disposals,
arrested in Moscow and Novosibirsk. The family re-
Painting, Tile Work
served 13 days in a nounced its Soviet citizen-
Novosibirsk jail. • , ship and each member paid
Ask for
In 1973, a grandfather 500 rubles. The members
FRANK GUTENBERG
who had received permis- were granted Israeli citi-
355-1500
sion to leave with daughter zenship.
Later, Poltinnikov re-
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Eleanora, died in Switzer-
land, and the family was fused a call from the KGB
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No job tao small.
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nikovs then initiated a charges of anti-Soviet ac-
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hunger strike. tivities and he and his
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Victoria was arrested at daughter were threatened
with charges of parasitism.
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parasitism — in the Soviet European Stores
. Union is a crime.
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Congressman William
Arabia's
boycott of Israel of-
Broomfield was active in
fice in Jidda is urging Arab
efforts on behalf of the
tourists to boycott several
Poltinnikovs, as well as
major European depart-
Rae Sharfman of the De-
troit Committee for ment stores.
The stores include Marks
Soviet Jewry.=
and Spencer, Selfridges and
The congregation has Great Universal in Britain;
seen the release so far of Au Printemps, Prisunic and
Vladimir - Markman and Galeries Lafayette in Fr-
Mikhail Strugach, others ance; and Grand- Magazines
who have been adopted by Innovations, Le Manteau,
the congregation.
Prisunic, Uniprix, Priba
17515 W. NINE MILE ROAD
Currently, the congrega- 'and Super Priba in Bel-
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Isaac over of Sverdlovsk,
Southfield, Michigan 48075
The boycott was imposed
a 59-year-old refusenik, because of the stores'
Who was stricken with
bladder cancer. He has been "strong connections with Is-
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Dudley Musket, a self-
employed upholsterer, died
Feb.- 5 at. age 60.
A native Detroiter, Mr.
Musket owned Berkley
Fabrics in Berkley for five
years. He was a member of
the Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Musket leaves two
daughters, Judy, of
Amherst, Mass., and Robin;
a brother, Fred of East
Lansing; and a sister, Mrs.
Al (Phyllis) Rosenberg.
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Tito of Yugoslavia is on a
four-nation. Middle East
tour designed to; unite Arab .
ranks divided by Egypt's
peace efforts- and to obtain
economic aid for his coun-
try,
Tito is visiting Kuwait,
Iraq, Syria and Jordan.
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