84 Friday, April 25, 1986
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
OBITUARIES
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Robert Danto
Robert V. Danto, an attorney
with offices in Detroit, died April
16 at age 77.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr.
Danto practiced law for 56 years,
specializing in labor relatThns. He
was a member of the Great Lakes
Yacht Club, Temple Israel and its
brotherhood, was a past master of
Perfection Lodge of the Masons.
He was graduated from the De-
troit College of Law in 1928, Mr.
Danto was a member Iof
Michigan Bar Association, the
20th Century Club of the Detroit
College of Law, a life member of
Brandeis University and Men's
ORT Federation.
He leaves his wife, Ethel; a son,
Dr. Lawrence A. 014 Davis, Calif.;
a daughter, Mrs. Robert (Pat-
ricia) Baer; a brother, Richard of
San Bernadino, Calif.; three sis-
ters, Mrs. Jerry (Fritzie) Kohn of
West Palm Beach, Fla., Mrs. Ar:
nold (Ilo-Ann) Kantor of Boynton
Beach, Fla., and Mrs. Benjamin
(Betty Ann) Faber of Los Altos,
Calif.; and four grandchildren.
Otto Preminger
New York — Otto Ludwig
Preminger, film and stage direc-
tor and producer, is dead at age
80.
Born in Vienna, Mr. Preminger
came to the United States in
1935, where he earned a reputa-
tion of note in the theater as a
producer.
He established himself in film
in 1944 with Laura. His other di-
rectorial credits include The
Moon in Blue, The Man with the
Golden Arm, Exodus, Advise and
Consent, Bunny Lake is Missing
and Porgy and Bess. He was deco-
rated by the Vatican for his film
The Cardin(gl.
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Phillip L. Kanter, founder and
chairman of the P. L. Kanter
Agency and the North American
Agencies, died April 21 at age 82.
Born in Detroit, Mr. Kanter
was a member of Cong. Shaarey
Zedek, Detroit Lodge of B'nai
B'rith, Zionist Organization of
America, and he was of counsel to
the Meadowbrook Insurance
Group.
He leaves a son, Gerald; a sis-
ter, Dr. Beulah Wray of
Hartsdale, N.Y.: and six grand-
children.
David A. Hersh, legal counsel
for the Maccabees Mutual Insur-
ance Co. for the past 35 years,
died April 20 at age 79.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr.
Hersh was a former law partner
of former Detroit Mayor Edward
Jeffries.
He leaves his wife, Ida; three
daughters, Mrs. James (Denise)
Weiner, Mrs. Karen Roark of
Yellowsprings, Ohio, and Mrs.
David (Sheila) Lipschutz; a sis-
ter, Mrs. Leonard (Lillian) Fren-
kel; a brother, Irving; and seven
grandchildren.
Elsie Kaplan
Elsie Kaplan, a member. of
Jewish women's organizations,
died April 21 at age 72.
Born in Detroit, Mrs. Kaplan
was a member of Women's
American ORT, Project Hope,
Hadassah and Temple Beth El
and its sisterhood.
She leaves her husband,
Seymour; a daughter, Dodo
Kepes; a son, David; a brother,
Herman Cass; five grandchildren
and one great-granddaughter.
Rescuer Dies
San Francisco — Herman
Grabe, a non-Jewish engineer
who saved or protected hundreds
of Jews from the Nazis, died April
17 at age 85.
Rabbi Killed
In Pittsburgh
Toronto (JTA) — Some 1,000
persons attended the hastily-
called funeral Friday of 24-year
old Rabbi Neil Rosenblum, killed
by an unidentified assailant
while visiting his wife's parents
in Pittsburgh for Passover.
Police apparently have few
leads in the case, but reports
indicate that Rosenblum, dressed
in traditional Orthodox garb, was
approached by a white man driv-
ing a dark colored automobile
who stopped to ask for directions.
The assailant is said to have
gotten out of the car and fired six
bullets into the victim at dose
range. Rosenblum reportedly
gave police some information be-
fore his death.
Shcharansky
Has An Agent
New' York (JTA) — Anatoly
Shcharansky, the Soviet Je,wish
dissident who recently emigrated
to Israel, has signed a contract
wih the New York-based talent
agency International Creative
Management (ICM), which also
represents former U.S. Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger.
The Washington Post said
Shcharansky is close to signing a
major book contract. "probably
with Random House." The paper
said that "any book contract for
an autobiography will probably
dictate that a major portion of the
money go to organizations to help
other Soviet Jews."