• Zide-Nessel Betrothal Alfred Werner Schafberger-Sorock Troth Told in Arizona to Discuss 'Art and Announced at Party Jew' at Festival An exhibition of contemporary Israeli art will be featured in the Jewish Center's Winter Cultural Arts Festival, according to Lester S. Burton, chairman. The exhibition, to be shown the entire month of February, will present the works of more than 40 contemporary Israeli artists, in- cluding oil paintings, water colors, drawings and woodcuts by Moshe Gat, Jacob Pins, Zvi Raphaeli, Ruth Schloss, and others. Art critic and lecturer Alfred Werner will be presented in a special illustrated lecture 8 p.m. Feb. 7. Werner. w h o is senior editor of "Art Voices," contri- buting editor of "Arts Magazine' and art critic of Congress Bi- Weekly, will speak on "Art and the Jew." Werner has tra- • veled widely in I Europe and Is- rael and is the author of a num-, ber of art books. Werner Another feature of the Winter Cultural Arts Festival is the Jew- ish Museum's traveling exhibit of Anatoli Kaplan's 18 lithographs. Kaplan, known throughout Russia, has had his paintings and litho- graphs exhibited in many of the foremost American museums. The present collection. consist- ing of a part of his illustrations' for Sholem Aleichem's "Tevye," is the first exhibition of Kaplan's works in Detroit. MISS PAMELA SCHAFBE GER The engagement of Pam la Ann Schafberger and Robert Bruce Sorock was announced at a family dinner recently in Tucson. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Frank Schafberger of Scotts- dale. Ariz.. and the late Mr. Schaf- berger. Parents of the prospective bridegroom are Dr. and Mrs. Mil- ton L. Sorock of Sherbourne Rd. The couple, seniors at the Uni- versity of Arizona. plan a June 20 wedding in Phoenix. • &ngagements Mr. and Mrs. Ben Matz of Gar- dener Ave., Oak Park, announce the engagement of their niece Denise Radomski to Bernard L. Krause, son of Mr. and Mrs. Syd- ney A. Krause of W. Outer Dr. A March 7 wedding is planned. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Braverman of Outer Dr. announce. the en- gagement of their daughter Bar- bara Toby to Sheldon Glen Larky, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Larky of Ravine Dr., Livonia. The bride- elect attended Mount Ida Junior College. Mr. Larky is a graduate of the University of Michigan. An April 25 wedding is being plan- ned. * • • Mr. and Mrs. Morris W. Morger of Balfour Ave.. Oak Park, an- nounce the engagement of their daughter Ellen Sue to Robert Charles Solomon. son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Solomon of Wyn- cote. Pa. Miss Morger is a senior at the University of Michigan. Mr. Solomon. a graduate of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. is pursu- ing further studies at the Univer- sity of Michigan. The wedding will take place May 2. * * * Dr. and Mrs. Myron Hauser of Northlawn Ave. announce the en- gagement of their daughter Joann to William Greenberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Greenberg of Fort Lee. N. J., and formerly of Hunt- ington Woods. The bride-elect and her fiance attend the Massachu- setts College of Optometry, Bos- ton. A June wedding is planned. W. $1,000,000 in Shares Sold by Israel Investors Corp. BEVERLY MILLS, Calif., (JTA) — More than $1,000,000 in addi- tional capital has been subscribed to at a report meeting of Israel Investors Corp. held Monday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. _More than 1,250 people were in attendance to hear a report on the progress of the company presented by Samuel Rothberg of Peoria, president of the corporation. The meeting took place on the eve of the departure of Louis Boyar. chairman of the board, and Roth- berg to Israel to discuss further investment programs with Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir. 702 0169 S t Clip i e I Marguerite Chajes Gains Acclaim at Vienna Performance Special to The Jewish News VIENNA — On the occasion of the first performance of Dvorak's Opera House, an affair took place in a palace at which an illustrious m u s is a 1 audience, composed of opera directors, musicologists, ar- tists and lovers of Dvorak's music. were present. The chairman, Dr. Marcel Prawy. vice-director of the Volksoper, ex- plained the work by the greatest of Czech composers, when sudden- ly he called on Marguerite Kozenn Chajes, who had sung the first "Rusalka" in the Western Hemis- phere in Detroit under the patron- ship of the late Jan Massaryk, at that time Czech minister of for- eign affairs. In the audience were many Czechoslovaks, the conductor. stage director and scenery designer; they recognized her from the "Ru- salka" performance, which she gave in 1947 in Prague, singing in English while the entire cast was Czech. After her description she received a long round of ap- plause. At the Viennese premiere she was the honored guest of the director. Next month Mrs. Chajes will start her work at the State Acad- emy of Music in Munich. She will hold seminaries about "American Music Since Its Inception Up to 1965." She has chosen to speak about leading American composers such as Leonard Bernstein, Sam- uel Barber, Norman Dello Joio, Paul Creston, Aron Copland, Gian- Carlo Menotti and various repre- sentatives of American church music. Her title will be guest- professor, and it will be for the first time in Munich's musical life that a woman will undertake such an ambitious program. Mrs. Chajes has been invited to Budapest, Warsaw, Prague and other European capitals for lec- tures and for meetings with their respective leading composers. MISS SANDRA ZIDE The engagement of Sandra Hel- ene Zide and Martin Nessel was re- cently announced at a dinner party. Miss Zide is the daughter of Mrs. Sylvia Zide of Stoepel Ave. and the late Mr. Carl Zide. Mr. Nessel is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Nessel of Whitcomb Ave. The bride-elect is a graduate of Wayne State University's college of education; and Mr. Nessel is a graduate of Walsh Institute of Ac- countancy. A June wedding is planned. Tribute to JDC in .Dr. Handlin's `Continuing Task' On the occasion of the 50th anni- versary of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Ran- dom House has is- sued a volume by Prof. Oscar Hand- 1 i n entitled " A Continuing Task." This is in es- sence a history of the JDC fro m 1914 to 1964. But it really is much more than that It is an histori- cal evaluation of events that trans- pired during the past 50 years. It