54 Friday, February 9, 1919 46—BUSINESS -CARDS Wet, damp, leaky basements made dry. Guaranteed 18 years. Experienced -- lowest price. FRANK'S WATERPROOFING 559-7398 PIANO Guaranteed tuning - repairs. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 40—BUSINESS CARDS Large or small Plumbing, electrical, Carpentry, Very reasonable. No Sabbath calls. 544-2565 Professional Perfectionist Wallpaper - Painter and color coordinator Need Help? Jack L. Menuck 53—ENTERTAINMENT VICKI - FRED Duo. Audience participation. 398-2462. BAND Call Bob 559-2209 Excellent Music For All Social Occasions 731.6081 55—ART FOR SALE Call , BEN SHAHN Days 548-4207 Eves. 476-7325 Blowing Fuses? Short Circuited? Call INK DRAWING PRICE NEGOTIABLE All-Bright Homes 363-4902 754,7131 This Space Reserved for Your Ad Call 424-8833 AZIR PAINTING & DECORATING Interior-Exterior Free Estimates Reasonable rates. 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. * * * Soviets Halt Art Show, Refusenik Role Is Blamed . 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 DR. ELECTRIC No job too small or large. Repairs - Violations corrected. 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 HOME REPAIRS 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- EXPERT HOME REPAIRS Eleanora, died in Switzer- land, and the family was fused a call from the KGB Painting - Light Plumbing prohibited from attending (secret police). He was No job tao small. the funeral. The Poltin- threatened with criminal For free estimates nikovs then initiated a charges of anti-Soviet ac- Call Dennis hunger strike. tivities and he and his 398-0646 Victoria was arrested at daughter were threatened with charges of parasitism. .0.0 V"R.9-440"x4" Inability to find work — Arabs Boycott parasitism — in the Soviet European Stores . Union is a crime. • NEW YORK — Saudi • 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- Suite 865 tion is seeking the release of gium. 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- ORDER TODAY trying to join his daughter rael" the Arab announce- and son in Israel since 1974. . ment said. Please send gift subscription to .: Letters on behalf of -rs Hostility Zlotver should be sent to NAME s An CAIRO (ZINS) Col. C. Trifinov, ul. Lenina 17, TSverdloVsk, RSFSR, Egyptian army general says ADDRESS an Isfaeli-Egyptian peace USSR. – Ztp STATE CITY It also was learned that could lead to blatant anti- Ilya Goldin, a leading re- Semitism if Israelis begin to FROM fusenik from Minsk, has re- dominate the Egyptian k ceived,anexitAisa for Israel A economy. ; OCCASION , The unidentified gener- grid . expects to le.ive by Fell, r-, Li $12 enclosed - ' - - ' reported by the al's„ comments were re- I 19, it was. we elm; mor amp !mt. im• Mem im wino. aw nom 10 wi:s .... .= ...mai "r ■ ri 4.i... i. 1..: Jo* ...:..r.i.A. am .:. ■ 'awl.. SSSJ: 29-year T okl4I sorted by Zeev' Schiff in engineer, had been denied' Haaretz. .440PX.9,446'.• .6"Ite;',(4"0.6;"X.0.0.6 Call 477-4786 ( Dudley Musket 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. Tito Tours Arab States ..... ..... , the perfect gif a subscription to THE JEWISH NEW . reace . . ‘1.0.K.6rA401"4tent.9"..Ont4:71C4P.A.19.0.0.4.0 6".X.1 JOSIP IITO - NEW YORK— President 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. Bowler ,of Year ST. 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