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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, May 10, 1968
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Atlanta Celebrates IsraeVs 20th Anniversary
Phillip Kuazan
TAMPA — Funeral services
for Phillip Kuazan were held
at Curry’s Funeral Home Feb
ruary 29. Interment was in Rod-
oph Sholom Synagogue, Rabbis
Stanley Kazan and Cantor Sid
ney Keiser officiating.
Mr. Kuazan was a long time
Tampa resident. He was a vice
president of the Jewish Culture
Club. He was also a member of
the Congregation Rodoph Sholom
and of VBBS, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Survivors include his wife Mrs.
Adele Kuazan, two daughters
Roslyn Hirschfeld of Freeport,
R. I., and Mrs. Sylvia Levy of
Hialeah, Fla., two brothers. Mi
chael Kuazan of Jackson Heights,
Lang Island, and Nat Kay,
Brooklyn, N. Y., five grandchil
dren, and two great-grandchil
dren.
Max Peterman
Max Peterman, 71, of New
York, brother of Mrs. Harry
Harrison of Miami Beach, died
April 21, 1968 in Miami Beach.
Funeral Services were held
Tuesday, April 23, at Riverside
Chapel, Bronx, N. Y.
Surviving besides Mrs. Harri
son, are his wife, Mrs. Helen
Peterman, brothers Morris and
Jack Peterman and sister Mrs.
Sam Alster.
Alvin Shoenig
Alvin Shoenig, 57, of Savan
nah died April 15.
Graveside services were held
April 16 in Bona venture Ceme
tery with Rabbi S. E. Starrels
officiating.
A native of Thomasville, Mr.
Shoenig had lived in Savannah
for the past 50 years. He was
president of the Georgia Mat
tress Co. and a member of Mickve
Israel Temple and its Brother
hood, and the Jewish Education
Alliance.
Survivors include two sisters,
Mrs. David I. Roos, Atlanta, and
Mrs. Maier Utitz, Savannah; two
nieces, Miss Lynn Shoenig, At
lanta, and Mrs. Martin S. Lefler,
Savannah; and a nephew, David
I. Roos Jr., Atlanta.
Office: 948-2279
Morris H. Manheim, Jr,
MONUMENTS
Home: TR. 4-2055
MORE THAN 600 ATLANTANS overflowed the ballroom of the
Progressive Club Wednesday evening, May 1, to celebrate Israel’s
20th anniversary of statehood. Co-sponsors of the event were the
Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation and the Consulate General of
Israel, Southeast Region. Abe Goldstein, president of the AJWF, and
Max Rittenbauni, vice president, who was MC, were among the par
ticipants in this rousing community-wide affair.
Consul General Zeev Boneh (left above) gave official greetings
from Israel to the Atlanta community. A musical program, “To
Israel With Love,” was presented by two Young Judaea chapters.
Among those in this sketch (above, left to right) were Sheryl Maslia,
Jody Klein and Nancy Silverboard.
BEHIND UN SCENES
by DAVID HOROWITZ
New World Order
UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
“There is no major problem trou
bling the world today which can
not be solved by the application
of the principle of international
concern with human rights.”
Thus declared Dr. Moses Mos-
kowitz whose latest book, “The
Alvin Schwab
Alvin Abraham Schwab, 85, of
Savannah died April 30.
Graveside services were held
May 2 at Bonaventure Cemetery
with Rabbi S. E. Starrels offici
ating.
Mr. Schwab was a native of St.
Louis and had lived in Savannal\
for 60 years. He was a retired
cotton dealer, a member of Con
gregation Mickve Israel and of
Clinton Lodge No. 54, F&AM.
Survivors include one brother,
Leon J. Schwab, Savannah; one
sister, Mrs. Charles L. Weill,
Greensboro, N. C., and a number
of nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Fannie Hershkowitz
Mrs. Fannie Hershkowitz, 79,
of Long Beach, L.I., N. Y., died
April 29. She was the mother of
Joe Hershey of Atlanta.
Funeral services were held
April 30 at Mt. Hebron Ceme
tery in New York.
Mrs. Hershkowitz had visited
in Atlanta a number of times.
She was the widow of Sam
Hershkowitz.
Other survivors include sons
Dave Hershey, Roslyn, N. Y., and
Hy Hershey, Long Beach; daugh
ter, Mrs. Nat Udell, Camden,
N. J., several grandchildren and
nieces and nephews.
Mrs, Iconise Moses
Mrs. Louise Schwarzweiss
Moses, 92, of Statesboro, Ga.,
died May 1.
Funeral services were held
May 2 in Savannah with inter
ment in Bonaventure Cemetery.
Rabbi A. I. Rosenburg, Cantor
Isaac Aisenstark and Rabbi S. E.
Starrels officiated.
Survivors include a daughter,
Miss Martha Moses, Statesboro;
two sons, Henry Moses, States
boro, and Jack Moses, Americus;
three grandchildren and three
great -grandchildren.
Politics and Dynamics of Human
Rights,” outlines a comprehensive
program of international action in
behalf of human rights for the
next generation and possibly for
a whole century.
Dr. Moskowitz, a familiar fig
ure here at the UN, represents
the Consultative Council of Jew
ish Organizations consisting of
the Alliance Israelite Universelle,
the Anglo-Jewish Association and
the Canadian Friends of the Al
liance. It is a non-Govemmental
organization in consultative status
with the Economic and Social
Council of the UN, UNESCO, ILO
and the Council of Europe.
One of the qualities of this
unique Jewish body, which is the
/nark of its distinction, is the
high intellectual and professional
approach to the problems of in
ternational human rights which
has been its major concern in the
UN since its inception, and Dr.
Moskowitz has distinguished him
self as its spokesman in the world
organization.
Significantly, ten years ago, on
occasion of the 10th anniversary
of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, Dr. Moskowitz
published a book entitled “Hu
man Rights and World Order.”
This volume outlined a course of
action for the UN much of which
saw implementation when the
General Assembly, at the end of
1966, adopted the International
Covenant on Human Rights and
the still more important Option
of Protocol an the Rights of In
dividual Petition.
In his latest work, to be pub
lished this month by Ooeano Pub
lications, Inc., Etobbs Ferry, N.Y.
($7.50), the noted Jewish author
delves deeply into every phase af
fecting the rights of man. The es
sence of his book is the basic idea
that international oonoom with
human rights as a working prin
ciple in international relations
can cut through all the difficul
ties and all the obstacles which
lie in the path of a peaceful world
order.
Each sentence in this 300-page
volume, fully documented, has
something to say, authoritatively
-—whether it concerns population
control, the problem of national,
Envisaged
racial, linguistic and religious mi
norities, the color question, the
disparity between rich and poor
nations, and other problems of
the human condition, let alone the
question of war and peace, the
cold war, regionalism and the
United Nations.
The Moskowitz publication may
well became a key, a guide, to
the laborious tasks facing the UN
experts in attaining the high goals
they have set for themselves for
their future accomplishments. Its
appearance in 1968, which has
been proclaimed as International
Year for Human Rights, holds a
special significance and there can
be no doubt that the world orga
nization will view its publication
as a highlight of the Year.
The International Declaration of
Human Rights was adopted on Dec-
cembor 10, 1948, the year of Is
rael’s rebirth as a sovereign State.
Its unanimous adoption offered
much hope for a war-weary man
kind, more especially the Jewish
people. The Declaration, Dr. Mos
kowitz tells us, is essentially a
restatement in oomtem p o r a r y
terms of the ideal goal of human
rights — the realization of free
dom, justice, equality and abun
dance for all, without regard to
race, creed or oolor. Its unique
contribution, he adds, is the es
tablishment of international con
cern with human rights as a pol
itical principle — a precedent in
world history.
The Secretary-General of the
Consultative Council of Jewish
Organizations was educated in
Europe and the U. S. He grad
uated from the College of the
City of New York in 1934 and
went on to graduate work in In
ternational Law and Relations at
Columbia University. As a U. S.
Army Officer during World War
II, he served in various capacities
overseas, including assignments
at Supreme Headquarters Allied
Expeditionary Force and U. S.
Military Government in Germ
any. In 1945-46 he served as
Chief of Political Intelligence,
Wuerttenberg-Baden.
Ever faithful to his Hebraic
heritage, Mooes Moskowitz main
tains a traditional Jewish home
in the strict Orthodox sense.
Neo - Nazis'
Vote Victory
Causes Alarm
BONN (JTA)—West Germany’s
neo-Nazi National Democratic
Party emerged from the Baden-
Wurttemburg state elections with
9.8 percent of the total vote cast,
assuring it of 12 seats out of 120
in the next state Parliament. It
was the most impressive display
of electoral strength to date by
the party whose extreme rightwing
nationalism and frequent advo
cacy of Hitlerian tenets have
caused widespread concern inside
and outside of Germany.
Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesin-
ger expressed fear that the
Baden-Wurttemburg election res
ults would damage West Germ
any’s, image abroad. Several hun
dred persons were reported to
have demonstrated in front of the
Baden-Wurttemburg Parliament
in Stuttgart with placards pro
claiming “10 percent Nazi, our
shame!”
The NPD, which espouses such
nationalistic causes as restoration
of Germany’s pre-war borders
and the removal of foreign troops
from German soil, has been stead
ily gaining political strength in
state elections. It has carefully
avoided the appearance of overt
anti-Semitism.
The latest results are regarded
with particular dismay because
Wurttemburg-Baden, Germany’s
third largest state with a popu
lation of 5.5 million, is regarded
as one of the most politically lib
eral areas in the nation. Political
leaders said that a success there
by the NPD would constitute a
danger signal.
Communists Stage
Anti-Viet Protest
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Twenty
to 30 Communists, waving red
flags and anti-Vietnam war pos
ters, demonstrated here opposite
the United States Embassy. The
placards rAad “Americans go
home” and “Vietnamese will de
cide for themselves the regime
they want.”
The demonstrators were joined
by a score of onlookers who
chanted in unison "Yankees go
home.’! Reinforced police guards
kept fhe demonstrators to the
pavement opposite the Embassy
building. No traffic disturbances
were reported.