10 Friday, November 20, 1%1 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Plight of Falashas CJF Focus ST. LOUIS (JTA) — The worsening plight of 25,000 Ethiopian Jews — Falashas — was the focus of serious concern at the 50th an- niversary General Assem- bly of the Council of Jewish Federations last week. A resolution welcomed the expanded programs of the government of Israel and Jewish Agency" to ef- fect the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel and their integration and absorption into Israeli society. But the numbers reach- ing Israel only emphasize how difficult and desperate the situation is, - the resolu- tion stated. It noted that over 1,000 Falashas have reached Israel since 1979 and "have adjusted to that country in a remarkably constructive and speedy manner." However, "We continue to call for a level do f action that is commen- surate with the danger and the urgency_of need. "Fhe situation is desper- ate and calls for rescue efforts of the highest priority," the resolution said. Meanwhile, the Ameri- can Association for Ethiopian Jews, an organization baSed in Costa Mesa, Calif., circu- lated a "Guide to Com- munity Action for Ethio- pian Jews." It urged that every Jew become in- formed about the plight of the Falashas. At another session, "The rescue of Soviet Jewry is the pre-eminent task of this generation of American Jews, - said Theodore Mann, chairman of the National Conference on Soviet • ewry. In the near future, Mann said he expects relations be- tween the U.S. and the Soviet Union to improve, particularly with respect to trade, and here is the chance for American Jews to seek assurance that the Reagan Administration will link the issue of Soviet Jewish emigration to any negotiations. A preliminary report from a one-year study by two University of Illionis researchers showed that 75 percent of the Russian Jews who have immigrated to the U.S. believe that their liv- ing standard and overall in- come are better in the U.S. than in the Soviet Union. . However, only 15 per- cent say their social status is better and only 20 percent say they have a better cultural life. Rita and Julia Simon studied 900 immigrants in 14 cities. Within six months of their immigration, 60 percent of the men and 34 percent of the women had found jobs. In a speech which opened the CJF sessions, Morton Mandel, the out- gOing CJF president, said he looked ahead toward a future "we can design for our children and grandchildren." Mandel visualized a closer relationship between federations and synagogues; progress in areas like Jewish educa- tion, leadership and de- velopment in financial management. • • • Detroiters Active at CJF Sessions Detroiter Martin E. Cit- rin was elected president of the CJF to succeed Mandel. Detroiter Robert H. Naftaly is the new vice chairman of the Large City Budgeting Conference. George M. Zeltzer pre- sented a paper on com- munity relations at a symposium. Jane Sher- man, co chairman of the national Project Renewal Committee of the United Jewish Appeal, chaired a session on Project Re- newal. Another discussion, on the needs of the Jewish dis- abled. was led by Dr. Con- i:ad L. Giles. Federation President .Judge Avern L. Cohn attended special meetings of selected large city presidents in addition to participating in several GA formal sessions. Dulcie Rosenfeld partici- pated in the cable television session. Detroit's rabbinical delegate to the CJF was Rabbi Dannel Schwartz of Temple Beth El. Dr. Richard Krugel and Susan Citrin also attended the conference as recipients of Detroit's Young Leadership Awards. Other participants were Mandell L. and Madeline Berman, N. Brewster and Ruth Broder, the Martin Citrin family, Robert M. Citrin, Toby and Jill Citrin, Samuel Cohen, Joyce Cohn, Sol and Leah Drachler, Stanley D. Frankel, Lynda Giles, Carolyn Greenberg, Dr. Allen Juris and Alan Kandel. Also, Thomas I. Klein, Sally Krugel, Alvin L. Kushner, Samuel Lerner, Jill Lublin, Morton Plot- nick, Norman Rosenfeld, Sculptor Ludwig Wolpert Dies Barbara Satinsky, D. Lawr- ence Sherman, Joel Tauber, Shelby Tauber and Pearl Zeltzer. NEW •YORK — Sculptor and metalsmith Ludwig Wolpert, longtime resident artist of The Tobe Pascher Workshop 'at The Jewish Daniel Shapiro Museum, died Nov. 6 at age Daniel Shapiro, a restau- 81. rant supply salesman, died Born near Heidelberg, Nov. 17 at age 83. Germany, Mr. Wolpert Born in Austria, Mr. studied sculpture and Shapiro was a member of metalwork at the School of Adat Shalom Synagogue, Arts and Crafts in its men's club and cemetery Frankfurt am Main. After committee and served as an emigrating to pre-state Is- usher there during High rael with his wife and Holidays. Mr. Shapiro was a daughter in 1933, Mr. Wol- member of the Hannah pert served as professor of Schloss Old Timers. metalcraft at The New Be- He leaves his wife, Rose; zalel School of Arts and three sons, Alvin, Harold of Crafts in Jerusalem. Grand Rapids and Cantor In 1956, Mr. Wolpert Robert of Ft. Worth, Tex.; emigrated to the United three brothers, Joseph and States to serve as resident Aleck, both of Toronto and artist at The Jewish Manny of California; three Museum at the request of sisters, Mrs. Willie (Minnie) the museum's parent organ- Brown and Mrs. Annie ization, The Jewish Serota, both of Toronto and Mrs. Irving (Ceil) Itzkovitz of New York; and nine Theological Seminary of America. Mr. Wolpert's commis- sioned works, are dis- played all over the world, at the International Synagogue at Kennedy Airport; the Jewish Chapel of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.; and He- brew University in Jerusalem. In 1948, Chaim Weizmann, the first Israeli president, presented an ark created by Mr. Wolpert to President Harry Truman as a gift. Mr. Wolpert has enjoyed one-man exhibitions at The Jewish Museum, New York; the Bezalel Museum in Jerusalem; and the Bayc- rest Museum, Toronto. Selected works have also been exhibited at the Art BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (JTA) — Clara Stern, sister of the late Israeli Premier Golda Meir, died Nov. 9. She was 79. Mrs. Stern, who was born in Milwaukee, was the first director of the - Greater Bridgeport Jewish Com- munity Council, a post she held for 25 years, and was responsible for laying the groundwork' or inter-group relations dialogues regionally. She established the Con- ference of Women's Organ- izations and the Council of Presidents of Greater Bridgeport, both of which encompassed Jewish and non-Jewish organizations, civic and labor groups. Mrs. Stern spoke nation- ally on behalf of the Israel Bond Organization and the United Jewish Appeal. She was also active for HIAS and YIVO'and the Jewish Family Services Organiza- tion. grandchildren. Hymen Kramer Hymen J. Kramer, a re- tired' real estate broker, died Nov. 16 at age 76. Born in Russia, Mr. Kramer lived 65 years in Detroit. He was a member of Adat Shalom Synagogue, Pisgah Lodge of Bnai Brith, Crescent Shrine Club and Hamilton Place. He leaves his wife, BethSheva; his children, Mrs. Allan (Anita) Gilbert, Mrs. Gerald (Carol) Eisen- shtadt, Dr. Jerald of At- lanta, Ga., Talyah Weins- tein Kramer and Dr. Daniel Weinstein of Israel; two brothers, Samuel and Jack; and seven grandchildren. Bernice Keene Bernice Keene, a former English teacher in the De- troit Public Schools, died Nov. 12 at age 80. Born in Empire, Mich., Mrs. Keene was a member of omen's American ORT, National Council of Jewish Women, Hadassah, Sinai Hospital Guild, League of Jewish Women's Organiza- tions, Music Study Club and Temple Israel and its sis- terhood. She leaves her husband, Samuel; two sons, Irving and James of Macomb, Ill.; a sister, Mrs. Annette Purdy; and five grandchildren. Golda Meir's Sister Dies Harry Stiglitz Harry Stiglitz, founder of the Stiglitz Super Arch Shoes in 1920s, died Nov. 9 at age 97. Born in Wampun, Pa., Mr. Stiglitz lived many years in Detroit prior to moving to St. Louis, Mo., where he resided at the time of his death. He was the founder of Stiglitz Quality Shop in the 1920s, specializ- ing in large size clothing for men. He retired in 195 when he moved to Califo nia. He also was a member o Perfection Lodge of the Ma- sons and a former member of Temple Beth El. He leaves a son, Allan of Wichita, Kan.; a daughter, Mrs. Berthold (Dorothy) Stein of St. Louis; four grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. Interment Detroit. Ann Finegold Ann Babcock Finegold, a former librarian and teacher, died Nov. 15 at age 73. Helen Glazer, president Reuben; two sons, Louis of A native Detroiter, Mrs. of Sharon Group of Hadas- Lansing_ and Brian; a Finegold made her home in sah, died Nov. 16 at age 59. daughter, Sharon; a California at the time of her Born in Wyandotte, Mrs. brother, Yearl Schwartz of death. She was a graduate Glazer was a member of San Diego, Calif.; five sis- of the University of Michi- Cong. Beth Achim Sister- ters, Mrs. Nathan (Rose) gan. hood and a former member Wrubel, Mrs. Philip (Pearl) She is survived by her of the board of directors of Muroff, Mrs. Victor (Al- husband, Eugene; a daugh- Cong. Shaarey Zedek Sis- freada) Blank, -Ann ter, Mrs. Jerry (Jan) Simon terhood. Schwartz and Lorraine of California; a brother, She leaves her husband, Schwartz. Sam- Babcock of Birming- ham; a sister, Mrs. Harry T. Jacob Domni tch Dies at 89 Madison of Southfield; and Jacob Domnitch, a tailor tired. three grandsons. Interment for the Detroit Police De- Mr. Domnitch was California. •• • partment from 1921 to awarded a Purple Heart 1971, died Nov. 17 at age 89. during World War I. Memorial Set He leaves four sons, Dr. Born in Russia. Mr. Dom- George 0. Downes, Saul A memorial service for nitch lived 65 years in De- Downes of New York, Yale Ann Babcock Finegold will troit. A self-employed Downes of California and be held 3:30 p.m. Sunday at tailor, he was known as Reuben; a brother, Isadore; Temple Israel: Rabbi M. "Jake the tailor." He was re- and five grandchildren. Robert Syme will officiate. Helen Glazer of Hadassah • . Memorial Due for Dr. Marwick WASHINGTON (JTA) — Memorial services will be ld at the Washington He- brew Congregation on Dec. 7 for Dr. Lawrence Mar- wick, former head of the Hebraic section of the Li- brary of Congress and an eminent author, teacher and linguist who died Oct. 17 at age 72. During his 30-year asso- ciation with the Library of Congress, Dr. Marwick as- sisted in the acquisition of the largest collection of Hebraica, Judaica and Semitica ever assembled under U.S. government au- spicies. Dr. Marwick, who was honorary consultant to the Library in Hebraic bibliog: raphy, was fluent in Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew and other Semitic tongues and in Polish, Russian, German and Yiddish. He was the Li- brary of Congress' represen- tative to many interna- tional meetings over a period of three decades. While working full time for the library, he also served for 17 years as ad- junct professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning in Philadelphia and taught courses in Semitic lan- guages and Israeli litera- ture at New York Univer- sity. and Craft Museum in Be- rlin; the 1938 New York World's Fair; the '1967 Montreal World's Fair; and the Maurice Spertus Museum of Judaica in Chicago, among others. As a specifil tribute, The Jewish Museum will ex- hibit a case containing selected works by the late artist. S. Dunsky, Author, Scholar TORONTO (JTA) — Shimshori (Samson) Dunsky, pedagogue, author, scholar and essayist has died in Montreal at age 82. Born in 1899 near Bialys- tok, he studied in yeshivot and came to Canada in 1922. In almost all his years in Canada he taught in the Jewish Peoples School in Montreal and was the school's vice principal be- tween 1927 and 1969. Mr. Dunsky taught Jewish history, grammar and the methodology of teaching. He was the author of articles, essays, poems and children's stories in the "Kanader Adler" (Canadian Eagle) of Montreal and -was a contributor to other Yid- dish and also Hebrew publi- cations in Canada and the United States. He translated into Yid- dish the Midrashim of five Scriptural books (the Megillot): Lamentations (1946), Esther (1962), Ruth (1962), Ecclesiastes (1967), Midrash Rabba Kohelet and Song of Songs Midrash Rabba Shir Hashirim (1973), with his commentaries. - He published a volume on Hebrew grammar (1951) and two volumes of chil- dren's poetry in Yiddish "Mein Lider Bichele, Vol. I and II. Mr. Dunsky was awarded the I.J. Segal Literary Award and in 1960_ the Manger Prize. He also re- ceived the H.M. Caiserman Literary Award from Cana- dian Jewish Congress. John Kurland John Kurland, an attor- ney and one time chief ad- ministrator of the Wayne County Juvenile Court, died Nov. 18 at age 75. Born in Russia, Mr. Kur- land was with the court for 35 years. He was a former referee for the court. He re- tired in. 1972. Mr. Kurland was graduated cum laude from the Detroit College of Law in 1934. He was the,founder of the social workers-nurses credit union at the juvenile court. He was a member of the Hannah Schloss Old Timers, Cong. Shaarey Zedek and its men's club, Hadassah Associates and was past president of the Michigan Probation and Parole Association. He leaves his wife, Freda; a son, Leonard M.; a daugh- ter, Nancy D.; two sisters, Mrs. Manuel (Ann) Peitz and Mrs. Elsie Larky of California.