Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1981 — Page 8

Obituaries

Architect Builds Chuppah

1 Rabbi John Zucker Dies In San Leandro

o SAN LEANDRO, Ca. - c Rabbi John Zucker, spiritual 5 leader of Temple Beth 3 Shalom, died here. He was x president of the East Bay •S Council of Rabbis, the Nor- • them California Board of "2 Rabbis and the Jewish p Family Service, and led cam- - paigns for the Jewish Federa- > tion and Israel Bonds.

He was president of the San Leandro Clergy Association. A native of Germany, he fled after Kristallnacht, and after a stay in England, became assistant to Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver in Cleveland. He served pulpits in Reno and Alameda before

coming here in 1947.

^Rabbi Kirshenbaum Is Taken By Death

LONDON, Ontario - Rabbi David Kirshenbaum, who served the community here for 53 years, died in Toronto. He served the B’nai Moses Ben Yehuda synagogue which later merged with Or Shalom, and was considered the unofficial leader of the Jewish

Community. He was a life trustee of the Victoria Hospital. In his honor the London Jewish Community erected a synagogue in his name at Yardena, in Israel near the Jordanian border. He was the author of 10 volumes.

Harold Linder Dies; Investment Banker

NEW YORK - Harold Linder, prominent investment banker who was active in the Jewish community, died here at the age of 80. When he was mustered out of the Navy, where he rose to the rank of Commander, after World War II, he was a volunteer worker in London for the Joint Distribution Commit-

tee. His other Jewish affiliations were with the American Jewish Committee, the UJAFederation and the Jewish Guild for the Blind. In the financial world he was president of the General American Investment Co., and was a partner in Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades and Co.

Maurice Rosenfeld Succumbs At Age 90 NEW YORK-Death at the He founded the Equitable age of 90 came to Maurice Bag Co. and was president Rosenfeld, former president and board chairman until 1974 of the Brooklyn Hebrew Or- when he became chairman of phan Asylum, now the Jewish its executive committee. For Child Care Association of many years he was president New York, and an honorary of the Youth Counsel Bureau, life trustee of the United and was active in leadership Jewish Appeal — Federation in many civic causes, of Jewish Philanthropies.

Nathaniel Goldstick, Past Temple President

DETROIT — Nathaniel retirement in 1962. He ran for Goldstick, a past president of Congress against incumbent Temple Israel, died at tlie age John. D. Dingell in 1936 and of 87. He was corporation was defeated, counsel for the city of Detroit He served in the U.S. Army in 1957 and served until his in World War I.

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Bernard Kaufman Dies At Age 71 CLEVELAND — Bernard Kaufman, a past president of Fairmount Temple, died here at the age of 71. He was president of the old Jewish Convalescent and Rehabilitation Center. He served with the U.S. Army in Europe in World WarQ.

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Love For Bride, Religion

FORT WAYNE, In. - Out of his happiness in his new religion, Richard W. Wismer, an architect, wanted to show his joy and as a result Achduth Vesholom Congregation here has a modernistic chuppah, which it treasures. THE CHUPPAH was the gift of Richard and his bride, Cindi Smith, and naturally it was dedicated for the first time with their marriage last November. The motif is the star of David and as the bridal couple enter under it, they walk through and under the Star. The couple met in the summer of 1978 when the architectural firm Richard is associated with was engaged to remodel an apparel shoppe where Cindi was working. She is a special education teacher with the Fort Wayne Community School System. After two years of casual dating, hindered by their different religious backgrounds, Richard undertook to join Rabbi Richard Safran’s conversion course. Cindi also attended. He decided to convert, and requested to design and build the chuppah under which the : couple would be married. CINDI’S PARENTS, are

Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. are Mr. and Mrs. William Smith and Richard’s parents Wismer.

An Occasional Column Artistry Of Film On Polish Jewry

By RABBI ELLIOT GERTEL Recently, I was privileged to see, at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, a special showing of a new YIVO film, Image Before My Eyes, a loving and thoughtful reconstruction Gertel of Jewish life in Poland between the two wars. The film begins by focusing on the rubble of the Great Synagogue of Warsaw which was destroyed by the Nazis. It then cuts to a view of the Great Synagogue, standing in all its splendor, with the voice •f the unforgettable Cantor Gershon Sirota, a martyr in the Warsaw Uprising, echoing through its hall. This moving and powerful opening scene is a fitting introduction to a film that miraculously transforms the ruins of a civilization destroyed by the Nazis into a thriving reality, meaningful to the viewer of any background. THIS FILM is particularly fascinating because it employs not only photographs, but motion pictures of Polish Jewish life, both professional and personal (family films) made before the Hitler era. It introduces the viewer to

many facets of European Jewry: Hasidic and NeoOrthodox (then called “Reform”); Zionist and antiZionist; Hebraist and Yiddishist; Communist and Bundist; Scholarly and Theatrical; Assimilationist and Ambivalent. It recalls the beggars and the tycoons, the farmers and the laborers, the historians and the poets and novelists, and even those who danced the “Charleston.” One realizes that Polish Jewry was as complex and creative as the present Jewries of America and Israel. MORE FASCINATING still are the people in the Film. Everyone interviewed somehow survived. We see each man and woman when they were young and Firmly rooted in their Polish-Jewish milieu, and then we hear them speak in the present from their homes and apartments, recalling in conversation and in paintings, in song and in monologue, in laughter and in sobs, the world that was once real to them, but that is virtually unknown to many of us. The film credits at the end declare that these "stars” of the picture did not always want to go into detail about how they survived the Nazis. Some shrugged off survival as a mere succession of miracles! Though the film borders,

at all times, on the theme of the Holocaust, it proudly sticks to the achievements and struggles of Polish Jewry before Hitler. Often, the shadow of the Holocaust is as if felt in the lenses of the cameras that filmed Image Be fore My Eyes. But this movie remains powerful Holocaust documentary precisely because it insists upon recreating what was destroyed without focusing on the destruction itself. This is perhaps the best kind of Holocaust memorial. TRUE, the depths of Nazi barbarity should be remembered in detail, and films and books that do this remain important for the communication of the unspeakable evils perpetrated by the Nazis. But the most powerful tribute to those who died is the quality and creativity of their lives! Written by Jerome Badanes, directed by Josh Waletzky, produced by Mr. Waietzky and Susan Lazarus, Image Before My Eyes, a 1981 release, is destined to become a classic. Watch for it when it appears on TV. It will — the sooner the better. Ask for it for congregational and Jewish community center programming. It is nothing less than a resurrection of the dead and an inspiration to the living.

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