iAVOD HA-MET
Juvenile Diabetes Association.
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
MICHAEL WINEMAN, 44, of Oak
Park, died Aug. 12.
For l 1 years, Mr. Wineman was a
UPS driver. He was a 1972 graduate of
Berkley High School, a member of the
Teamster's Union and owned and oper-
ated several Good Humor ice cream
routes.
Mr. Wineman is survived by his par-
ents, Irving and Shirley Wineman of
Oak Park; sister and brother-in-law
Lynda and Martin Steinberg of West
Bloomfield; brothers and sister-in-law
Alan Wineman of Oak Park, Bruce and
Julie Wineman of Novi; companion
Lisa Bolus.
Interment at Clover Hill Park
Cemetery. Contributions may be made
to Hospice of Michigan and the
Karmanos Cancer Institute.
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
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erhaps there is no greater symbol of Kavod Ha-Met (honoring the dead) than
the Shomer, the religious watchman who prays for the soul of the deceased. From
the first family we served 57 years ago, to the present, our chapel is staffed with a
Shomer 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our legacy is serving Detroit's Jewish
community with dignity and
adherence to tradition.
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Shaarey Zedek
Cultural Commission
presents "The World
ofYiddish In Story
and Song" with
Bernard Mendelovitch
Tues, Aug 24, 1999
at 7:00 pm.
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native of England,
entertains in both
English and Yiddish.
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for this event and there
will be an Afterglow
following the
performance.
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Shaarey Zedek
Cultural Commission
presents Bernard
Mendelovitch, "The
World of Yiddish in
Story and Song"
Tues, Aug 24, 1999
at 7:00 pm at
Congregation Shaarey
Zedek in Southfield.
Mr. Mendelovitch, a
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154 Detroit Jewish News
The man who wit-
nessed the near destruction of German
Jewry in the Holocaust, but survived to
help preside over its renaissance, died
Aug. 13 at the age of 72.
Ignatz Bubis was buried Sunday in
Tel Aviv. That he chose to be buried in
Israel, rather than in Germany, illus-
trates what he called his failure to con-
vince his fellow Germans that they can-
not escape their past, but bear a unique
responsibility to be a light unto other
nations in remembering and preventing
another Holocaust.
Bubis' death came weeks after he said
he would rather be buried in Israel than
in Germany because he feared that his
grave would be desecrated like that of
his predecessor, Heinz Galinski.
Ironically, Bubis' grave was desecrated
after his funeral by an Israeli.
His funeral at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery
in Tel Aviv was attended by German
President Johannes Rau, Israeli President
Ezer Weizman and 200 mourners.
Bubis is survived by his wife, Ida, and
their daughter, Naomi Ann.
In Germany, Bubis was mourned as a
man who brought his own experience as
a Holocaust survivor to bear on behalf
of all minority groups in Germany.
When Bubis believed his fellow citi-
zens had failed to learn from their tragic
history, he blamed himself. "I am
ashamed for you," he said from a podi-
um in Berlin when neo-Nazis threw
stones and tomatoes at Germans
demonstrating against racism in 1992.
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said
Berlin (JTA)
—
Germany had lost someone who
"helped to make it possible for fellow
Jewish citizens to again see a future in
Germany."
Through immigration of Jews from
the former Soviet Union, Germany's
Jewish community has more than dou-
bled to 75,000 since Bubis took leader-
ship of the German Jewish community
in 1992.
Berlin Mayor Eberhard Diepgen
mourned the loss
of a "personal
adviser." Diepgen
had fought bit-
terly against the
Holocaust
memorial in
Berlin, which
Bubis had
backed.
Last year,
Bubis criticized
German writer
Ignatz Bubis
Martin Walser
for saying it was
time to stop using the term
"Auschwitz" as a whip against
Germany.
In 1996, Bubis met with Yasser
Arafat in Germany. He urged the
Palestinian to have more patience in
the struggle for peace.
Bubis said he supported a
Holocaust memorial in Berlin, but
not at the expense of protecting the
memorials at concentration camp
sites. Germany's culture minister,
Michael Naumann, recently promised
to nearly double the funding available
to such memorials.
Bubis, who was born in 1927 in
Breslau — now Wroclaw, Poland, but
then a part of Germany — lost his
father and two siblings in the •
Holocaust. He was liberated from a
labor camp in 1945 by the Russian
army.
Last December, the Berlin grave-
stone of his predecessor, Heinz
Galinski, was destroyed by a bomb.
On Sunday, after the funeral in Tel
Aviv, Meir Mendelssohn of Tel Aviv, a
self-described artist, sprayed paint into
Bubis' grave as gravediggers shoveled
in dirt. Mourners apparently did not
see the incident but it was captured
on video. Mendelssohn told police
that Bubis was "a bad man."
On Tuesday, President Clinton
issued a statement lauding Bubis. "At
a time when conflicts in the Balkans
have confronted Europe and the
world with seemingly intractable
hatred, the example of Ignatz Bubis is
one we must all heed," Clinton said.