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NAFTULA SHTERN, 85, of Oak Park, died
Aug. 21, 2009.
He is survived by his wife, Rifka Shtern;
son and daughter-in-law, David and Helen
Shtern of West Bloomfield; son-in-law,
David Greenstein; sisters and brothers-in-
law, Leah Stern of New York, N.Y., Ruchy
and David Mermelstein of New York, N.Y.,
Zitta and Miklos Weiss of West Orange, N.J.;
grandchildren, Radmira Greenstein, Eugene
Greenstein, Arthur Shtern.
Mr. Shtern was the loving father of the
late Rose Greenstein.
Contributions may be made to a charity
of one's choice. Interment at Beth Abraham
Cemetery in Ferndale. Arrangements by
Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

MICHAEL STEIN, 70, of Oak Park, died
Aug. 20, 2009, after a five-month hospital-
ization.
He was a former special education
teacher who couldn't walk past a small
child without smiling broadly and saying
"hello!" He and his beloved wife, Kathy,
shared a deep love of animals, particularly

their dog Lulu and cat Herbie. He was a lov-
ing, compassionate person with a big heart
and a willing hand. Throughout his lengthy,
final illness, he displayed great courage and
determination, sometimes even joking with
those around him.
Mr. Stein is survived by his beloved wife,
Kathy Stein; sisters, Sharon Sandweiss and
Nancy Sandweiss; brother, Daniel Stein;
sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Pat and
Alan Small; nieces, Ruth Steinhauer, Rachel
Weistrop, Beth Cohen, Judy Sandweiss,
Deborah Sandweiss, Rachel Abramson and
Sharon Stein; nephew, David Sandweiss; six
great-nephews.
A memorial service will be held on
Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 11 a.m. at the Prentis
Jewish Apts. in Oak Park. Contributions
may be made to the Michigan Humane
Society or to Jewish Family Service.
Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

JEROME "JERRY" WAXMAN, 79, died
Aug. 16, 2009, in Toledo, Ohio.
He was born and raised in the Detroit
area, where many of his boyhood friends

reside. He and his wife, the late Blossom
Waxman, were active members of the
Toledo community as well as members of
Temple Shomer Emunim.
Mr. Waxman was an avid tennis player
and he and Blossom were members of the
Toledo Tennis Club for many years.
He is survived by his children, David
(Lisa) Waxman and Marcy (Greg) Kuehnle;
loving grandchildren, Matthew and Allison
Waxman, Sara and Sam Kuehnle; sister,
Marilyn (Jerry) Soble; nieces and nephews,
Michelle Soble (Kat Klass), Mitchel Soble,
Melissa Soble (Howard Deitch), Marc Soble
(Sue Bruss), Steve, Dan, Dori and Scott
Dolgin; great-nieces and great-nephew,
Erin and Kati Eisenberg, Abigail, Oliver and
Lillian Soble, Christina Dolgin; sister-in-
law, Jeanine Dolgin.
He was the adoring and devoted husband
of the late Blossom Waxman; caring and
devoted son of the late Goldie and the late
Irving Waxman; brother-in-law of the late
Judge David Aubrey Dolgin.
Funeral services were held at Temple
Shomer Emunim in Toledo (419) 885-3341.

Yiddish Author Josef Burg

Rome/JTA — The award-winning Yiddish
author Josef Burg has died at the age of 97
in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
Burg died Aug. 10, 2009, of a stroke,
according to Austria's Theodor Kramer
Society, which presented Burg with a liter-
ary award earlier this year.
Before World War I, Chernivtsi, known
as Czernowitz in German and Yiddish,
was the capital of the Bucovina region of
the Austro-Hungarian Empire and a focal
point of Yiddish language and literature.
Romanian rule arrived after World War I.
Born in 1912 in the nearby town of
Vishnits, Burg lost his entire family in the
Holocaust. He survived by fleeing to the
Soviet Union.
He published his first story in 1934
in the Yiddish newspaper Chernovitser
Bleter. Romanian authorities banned the
newspaper in 1938, but Burg revived it as
a monthly in 1990.
He continued writing and publishing
into his 90s, receiving several awards such
as Israel's Segal Prize for Yiddish writing.

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