Detroit Community Urged to Assist Soviet Jewish Newcomers

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

By HEIDI PRESS
Finding housing and jobs
and learning English are the
problems Russian immi-
grants coming to Detroit
must face.
Sam Lerner, executive di-
rector of the Resettlement
Service Board, speaking at a
reception for the 50 recent
Russian immigrants at the
Jewish Center Sunday, said

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that many of the new immi-
grants could not be hired
for sales and other jobs be-
cause they had no knowledge
of English.
Lerner said the board is
seeking to add intensive lan-
guage courses to existing
English courses, adding that
it is "important for the im-
migrants to have contact
with Russian-speaking De-
troiters who can in turn teach
them English."

migrants can be easily inte- who came from Russia to the
grated into the Jewish com- U.S. 27 years ago, have been
munity, Lerner said.
working on their own for
When housing is not readily more than a year to help the
available "we place the peo- new immigrants. Owners of
ple in rented rooms or put Radom Tailors in Oak Park,
them in apartments," he the Levinsons invite the new-
comers into their home
said.
where they are welcomed (in
At the reception, held to Russian) to the U.S.
introduce the new immi-
The Levinsons, who regis-
grants to the community,
Lerner appealed for help ter each of the new arrivals
from the community in find- in their store, try to get them
ing jobs. He suggested that jobs, rides to interviews and
Housing, which is being those with information on places to live. They intro-
and his ORCHESTRA_ sought in the Northwest De- jobs or housing availability duce them to other Russian-
troit and Oak Park areas, is call the Resettlement Service speaking persons so they can
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Louis and Rosa Levinson, munity to adopt the immi-
grants as personal friends,"
M.S. Levinson said. "They
need warmth and personal
interest." She said that there
is always a meeting in the
store to help the new cit-
izens.
Levinson said he calls on
anyone he can to help find
temporary o r permanent
jobs. He said he has helped
place about 20 persons with-
in the past year.
Among the guests at the
reception was Doris Zylber-
man, a 23-year-old profes-
sional photographer from Vil-
na, who came to Detroit with
her parents and older sister
2 1/2 years ago. She has a job
in a ladies' apparel shop in
Hamtramck. Her sister is a
pharmacy student at Wayne
State University.'
Originally from Russia,
Miss Zylberman and her fam-
ily moved to Poland, where
they found anti-Semitism to
be even more blatant. She
said the Poles taunted the
Jews, saying that they "al-
ways have to go to Pales-
tine." Her father, who was a
shamus, often found that his
synagogue had been vandal-
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ized.
At the program, arranged
Sunday
Friday
Saturday
by Mrs. Sol Grossman, presi-
dent of the Resettlement
Service board, and Dr. Ellis
Rifkin, chairman of hospital-
ity, guests were entertained
by violinist Michael Lefko-
THE RACKS OF FURS ARE
witz and his recently-arrived
OUT FOR THE LAST TIME
sister, Tanya. Prayer and
sister,
Tanya. Prayers and
THIS SEASON. THESE ARE
given in English and Russian.

RANK PAUL

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