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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE November 7, 1986 Page 27
Obituaries
Max Mesnick
Mrs. Celia Grunin
Mrs. Hannah Feldman
Isadore Scheer
Max R. Mesnick of Beach-
wood, Ohio, died Wednesday,
Oct. 29. He was 67.
Funeral was held Friday, Oct.
31.
Mr. Mesnick was the father of
Marlene D. Colon and the fa
ther-in-law of Dr. Paul A. Colon
of Atlanta.
A retired drugstore owner,
Mr. Mesnick was a member of
the Liberty Aid Society, HBSU,
the Cleveland Jewish Commun
ity Center and Temple Beth El.
Other survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Anne Mesnick; sons, Dr.
Ronald Mesnick of Cleveland,
Ohio, and Dennis Mesnick of
Seattle; and nine grandchildren.
Daniel Langman
Daniel Langman of Atlanta
died Sunday, Nov. 2. He was 81.
Graveside service was held
Tuesday, Nov. 4 at Arlington
Memorial Park.
Survivors include daughters
and sons-in-law, Tina and Mandy
Schwartz of Altanta and Marietta
and Dan Floru of Boston; and
one grandson, Andrew Schwartz.
Donations can be sent to
Temple Emanu-El, 1580 Spald
ing Drive, Dunwoody, Ga. 30338.
Arthur Cohen
NEW YORK (JTA)—The
noted Jewish author and pub
lisher Arthur Cohen died Oct. 31
of cancer in New York at 58.
Cohen authored numerous works
on the history of Jewish thought,
including “Martin Buber,” “The
Tremendum: A Theological In
terpretation of the Holocaust”
and “Herbert Bayer: The Com
plete Work.”
Cohen also wrote five novels,
including “An Admirable Wom
an,” based on the life and work of
his close friend Hannah Arendt
which won him the National Jew
ish Book Award. Other novels
include “A Hero in His Time,”
and “In the Days of Simon Stern.”
During his last years, Cohen
completed two books expected
to be published within the year:
“Artists and Enemies: Three
Novellas,” and “A Handbook of
Jewish Religious Thought,” edited
with another noted scholar of
Jewish thought, Paul Mendes-
Flohr.
After completing his graduate
studies in comparative religion
and philosophy, Cohen attended
the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America for three years to
study medieval Jewish philoso
phy.
Cohen worked as a visiting lec
turer at Brown University and at
the Jewish Institute of Religion.
He also chaired the board of the
YIVO Institute for Jewish Re
search.
Cohen contributed many arti
cles to journals and magazines
over the years. His treatise, “Why
1 Choose To Be a Jew,” pub
lished in Harper’s in 1959 has
been widely read by students of
Jewish thought. In the article,
Cohen stressed the nee’d for con
necting Jewish identity with the
Jewish religion to ensure survival
of both.
Mrs. Celia Plotkin Grunin of
Savannah died Monday, Oct. 6.
She was 98.
Graveside service was held
Tuesday, Oct. 7, at Bonaventure
Cemetery.
A native of Russia, she had
lived in Savannah for 73 years.
She was a member of Cortgrega-
tion B’nai B'rith Jacob Synagogue
and its sisterhood, and the Sha
lom group of Hadassah.
Survivors include sons, Reuben
Grunin of Savannah and Israel
Grunin of Las Vegas; daughters,
Mrs. Martha Gincel of North
Bergen, N.J., and Mrs. Bertha G.
Lamhut of Savannah; four grand
children and four great-grand
children.
Cohen Unveiling
The unveiling ceremony in
memory of Marcus Cohen will
take place at 1 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 16, at Greenwood Cemetery.
Rabbi Arnold M. Goodman
will officiate.
Mrs. Hannah Levy Feldman
of Atlanta died Friday, Oct. 31.
She was 80.
Graveside service was held
Sunday, Nov. 2, at Greenwood
Cemetery. Rabbi Harry H. Ep
stein and Cantor Isaac Good-
friend officiated.
Mrs. Feldman was a member
of Ahavath Achim Synagogue
and its sisterhood, and Hadas
sah.
Survivors include her husband,
Max A. Feldman; daughter, Mrs.
Marcia Germanow of Saddle
River, N.J.; son, Edwin B. Feld
man of Atlanta; six grandchild
ren and two great-grandchildren.
Donations can be made to the
Jewish Home.
Taffel unveiling
The unveiling ceremony in
memory of Anita Ilyeen Taffel
will take place at 2 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 16, at Arlington Memorial
Park. Rabbi Alvin Sugarman will
officiate.
Friends and family are invited.
Journalist Richard Yaffe dies at 83
by Murray Zuckoff
NEW YORK (JTA)—Richard
Yaffe, a leading Jewish journalist
and Socialist Zionist who used
his skills not only to record the
events of the present but also the
hopes of the future for the Jewish
people and for Israel, died last
Thursday night. He was 83. His
entire adult life was marked by
what he called the chance for the
good fight. He was a journalist in
the cause of humanity.
As a foreign correspondent for
CBS after the war, he recorded
the history of a war-torn Europe
arising like a phoenix out of the
ashes, the immigration of Euro
pean Jews to Palestine, and the
establishment of the State of
Israel.
Yaffe was one of the first jour
nalists—possibly even the first—
to provide serious and substan
tial coverage of the struggle of
Soviet Jews to immigrate to Israel
or to live as Jews in the U.S.S.R.
As early as 1950, after returning
from his stint as a CBS corre
spondent in Eastern Europe, he
wrote a five-part series on the
situation of East European Jewry
for the National Jewish monthly.
During his assignment in East
ern Europe he sent cables and
broadcast directly from the war-
devastated areas. In Poland, he
visited the site of the Warsaw
Ghetto. In Czechoslovakia, he
visited the Theresienstadt con
centration camp.
In Hungary, he covered the
purge trial of Laszlo Reik, the
Communist Party leader. In
Yugoslavia, he met with the
country’s only surviving rabbi,
who had been a partisan with
Tito’s guerrillas. In Aden, after
visiting Israel, he covered “Oper
ation Magic Carpet,” the airlift
which brought the Yemenite Jews
to Israel. '
Yaffe was one of the very few
who worked at Jewish journal
ism before the term “Jewish
journalism” came into being. His
pioneering helped establish its
legtimacy and led to the strong
American Jewish press in Amer
ica today.
Last month, Yaffe was named
the recipient of the Council of
Jewish Federations’ Boris Smo-
lar Awards’ first “Special Cit
ation for Lifetime Achievement
in Jewish Journalism.” He re
ceived the news with great joy.
But death prevented Yaffe from
actually receiving the award. His
funeral was Sunday, less than
two weeks before it was to have
been presented to him at the CJF
General Assembly in Chicago.
Isadore Scheer of Savannah
died Monday, Sept. 30. He was
66.
A native of Chatham County,
Mr. Scheer was a member of
Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob
Synagogue. He was a retired
package store owner and was a
U.S. Army veteran of World
War II.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Betty Palefsky Scheer; daughters,
Miss Sandy Scheer of Atlanta
and Mrs. Rosalind S. Hirsch of
Philadelphia; sons, Edward Scheer
of Atlanta, Stewart Scheer, Larry
Scheer and William Scheer, all of
Savannah; sisters, Mrs. Celia
Hirsch, Mrs. Bertha Friedman
and Mrs. Gertrude Barr, all of
Savannah; brother, Samuel Scheer
of Savannah; three grandchild
ren, nieces and nephews.
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