FEBRUARY 23 • 2023 | 69 and Milt Bonich; son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Margie Schuldinger; grand- children and their spouses, Erin and Tim Martin, Adam and Carina Bonich, Elyssa and Reece Pierson, Daniel and Rebecca Schuldinger, and Mitchell Schuldinger; great-grandchildren, Avery Martin, Owen Martin, Reed Pierson, Justice Pierson, Jaiden Forrester, Aubrey Pierson, Valentin Buliga and Alexander Buliga. He is also survived by Anatoli (Natasha) Buliga. Shep was predeceased by his beloved wife of 70 years, Delores Schuldinger; and his parents, Sadie and Aaron Schuldinger. Interment was at Adat Shalom Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Zekelman Holocaust Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334, holocaustcenter. org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. EVE SHULAK, 88, of West Bloomfield, died Feb. 10, 2023. She was born in Detroit and lived her life in the Detroit metropolitan area. She married Ken Shulak, (deceased Oct. 2020) at age 20 and raised four children in Detroit and Southfield. She was a longtime employee of Southfield Public Schools. Eve was very devot- ed to family and loved noth- ing more than bringing fam- ily together for holidays and celebrations. In addition to her love of family, she was a skilled craftsperson and over the years engaged in the arts of stamping, jewelry making and knitting. Mrs. Shulak is survived by her four children, Cindy Shulak-Rome (Dan Rome), Jeffrey Shulak (Amy), Barry Shulak and Alan Shulak; grandchildren, Elana Rome Cutler (David), Ben Rome, Sam Shulak (Chelsey) and Will Shulak; great-grandson, Gabriel Cutler. Interment took place at Adat Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to Hand in Hand Schools, Michigan Humane or a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. RANDY WATSKY, 68, of Commerce, died Feb. 10, 2023. He is survived by his beloved wife, Pamela Watsky; chil- dren, Mitchell Watsky and Lauren Watsky; devoted sis- ter, Bari Heifetz; mother-in- law, Dolores Bloch; adoring brothers-in-law, Phil (Kathy) Block and Sandy Golden; many loving nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-neph- ews, other family members and friends. Mr. Watsky was the beloved son of the late Harold and Elaine Watsky; son-in- law of the late Maurice Bloch. Contributions may be made to the Glioblastoma Foundation or to Heart to Heart Hospice. Interment took place at Adat Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. S ongwriter Burt Bacharach, who with his longtime lyricist Hal David turned out a string of hits in the 1960s and ’70s — including “ Alfie” and “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” — died Feb. 8, 2023, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94. Bacharach and David, both Jewish New Yorkers, also wrote a host of songs that made Dionne Warwick a megastar, such as “Walk On By, ” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” and “I Say a Little Prayer. ” The duo came to fame while working in the Brill Building — a Midtown Manhattan mecca for music publishing that housed a slew of Jewish songwriters, including the teams of Carole King and Gerry Goffin, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. But unlike their peers, who wrote for the burgeoning teen market, their songs were marked by a certain elegance and romance that drew more on the Great American Songbook and Broadway than rock ’n’ roll. Fittingly, the pair collabo- rated with Broadway producer David Merrick on the 1968 musical Promises, Promises, which yielded two hits, includ- ing the title tune and “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again.” That show too had a strong Jewish pedigree: The book by the leg- endary playwright Neil Simon was based on the 1960 film The Apartment, written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. Bacharach grew up in Forest Hills, Queens; his father was a journalist and his mother an amateur musician. He recalled in his 2013 autobiography, Anyone Who Had a Heart, written with Robert Greenfield, that “no one in my family ever went to synagogue or paid much attention to being Jewish.” And yet Jonathan Freedman, author of Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity, told the New York Jewish Week in 2013 that what made Bacharach’s music Jewish was his “wild play with time signatures; he is to time signa- tures what [George] Gershwin is to chord changes.” He called Bacharach “really audacious and experimental,” an example of what he sees Jewish artists doing as they “enter popular forms and make them their own.” Bacharach was also the first composer to be featured in the experimental jazz musician John Zorn’s late-1990s “Great Jewish Music” series; in the CD’s jacket notes, Zorn thanks him for not changing his name and points out that Bacharach is “one of the great geniuses of American popular music — and he’s a Jew.” Look for a special remembrance of Bacharach by his good friend Linda Solomon in next week’s JN. Famed Songwriter Burt Bacharach, 94 JTA BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES Composer Burt Bacharach (left) and lyricist Hal David hold Oscars they won for “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, at the Academy Awards, April 7, 1970.