16 Friday, January 16, 1981 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS I Attention Doctors List of Historic Facts and Faces from Jewish Detroit Obtain Cash for your Un-Wanted Medical 4,.. Equipment :q'. WE BUY SELL TRADE,MOVE By ALLEN A. WARSEN "History of Detroit, Michi- Grand Rapids was the first Jewish member of Dr. Emil Amberg, a gan." Nathan Bielfield was the Michigan State Legis- graduate of the Univer- sity of Heidelburg in 1894, the first president of the lature. He served the is the only Jewish physician Detroit House of Shelter 1871-1873 term. He also was the first Michigan portrayed in the biographi- (Hakhnosas Orkhim). William Boxerman, Fred Jewish member of the cal section in George N. Ful- M. Butzel's biographer, was United States House of ler's "Historic Michigan." the first executive director Representatives. He Dr. Max Bailin was De- of the Detroit Jewish Com- served the term 1883- troit's first Jewish surgeon. munity Council. 1885. Moses Benmoshe, born in Harry Keidan was Wayne Henry Magnus Butzel England in 1882 and mar- New Equipment Also was the first Jewish chief County's first Jewish Cir- ried to Simma Guttwoch, justice of the Michigan Sup- cuit Court judge. Doctor Medical Resale came to Detroit in 1914 reme Court. Julian H. Krolik, com- where he practiced Call Adolph Deutch founded munity leader and philan- medicine and surgery. His American (Federal) Sav- thropist, was the first reci- IRA H. RUBIN mini-biography is described ings. for excellent rates and services pient of the Fred M. Butzel in Clarence M. Burton's Call 9-9 569-4407 Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich Award for Distinguished was the first woman reci- Community Service, estab- • pient of the Fred M. Butzel lished by the Jewish Wel- 1 Memorial Award for distin- fare Federation of Detroit in guished community service. 1951. Miriam and Aba Kush- Walter L. Field, author of "A People's Epic" and ner are the first ar- "Symphony of Threes," chivists of Temple Beth wrote "Gleanings from El's archives, which con- the Bible." Published by tain the largest collection the Keren Reuven Fund of Michigan Jewish his- of the World Jewish Bible torical documents and Society, it includes greet- materials. Carl Levin is Michigan's ings from Prime Minister first Jewish U.S. Senator. Menahem Begin. Samuel Levin was Wayne Joseph Forbes, first ROLEX Jewish mayor of Oak Park, State University's first is Democratic majority Jewish professor and from Dec. 15 open 9:30-7:30 leader of the Michigan chairman of the Depart- ment of Economics. Sat. til15:30 House of Representatives. Samuel Marcus, Detroit's Rabbi Leon Fram founded Temple Israel in 1941. Its first rabbi, served from 1850 first president was Morris until his death in 1854. David Marx was Detroit's Garvett. first kosher butcher. Prof. David N. Freedman 851-7333 David Nederlander, is the editor of the "Anchor born May 24, 1886, was Farmington Hills 31313 Northwestern Bible Series" of Doubleday. rl Walter Goodman was the the progenitor of Michi- • Jewelry Designers & Manufacturers first Jewish manager of the gan's well-known theat- of Original Cs Unusual Creations rical dynasty. Michigan State Fair. Authorized Appraisers • Estate Liquidators Max Osnos was Sinai Julius Houseman of Hospital's first president. Dr. Ralph Pino helped es- tablish Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Michigan. Arthur A. Polachek pub- lished The Detroit Jewish Society Book of 1916," a ver- itable store-house of local Jewish historical informa- tion. Meyer L. Prentis, the great philanthropist, was a long-time treasurer of the General Motors Corp. Esther Prussian or- ganized the Detroit Service Group in 1926, the year the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit was formed. E. Rabinowitz and Hyman Buchhalter were the first president and vice president, respectively, of the United Hebrew Schools. .1.- k Ar- Knomilwthe ComParrY WzKeep mnti mo Dr. Harry C. Satzstein, Sinai Hospital's first chief of staff, authored the publica- tion "Sinai Hospital and the North End Clinic." Samuel Satovsky and Harry Slatkin were De- troit's early Jewish buil- ders. The former con- structed the once- famous, now demolished, Graystone Ballroom the latter built entire blocks of houses in the Motor City. Dr. Harold T_Shapiro is the first Jewish president of the University of Michigan. Isaiah Leo Sharfman was the first dean of the School of Economics at the Univer- sity of Michigan. Simon Shetzer, national Zionist leader, was the first president of the Detroit Jewish Community Coun- cil. Charles C. Simons, who represented the second dis- trict in the Michigan State Senate and was Republican presidential elector-at- large in 1916, was the first Detroit Jewish judge of the Eastern District of Michi- gan and United States Court of Appeals in Cincin- nati, Ohio. David W. Simons, out- standing community leader, born in Russia in 1856 and came to Detroit in 1870, was the first Jewish member and long-time president of the Detroit Lighting Com- ORT National Parley Slated "THE NEW WASHINGTON THE OLD JERUSALEM" (Hear the man and judge for yourself) The Public Is invited $2.00 per person students "Year One of the Second Century of ORT" — the Organization for Rehabili- tation through Training — will be marked Jan. 23-25 by delegates attending the 1981 national conference of the American ORT Federa- tion at the Sheraton Center in New York City. 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