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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. 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