6 Friday, July 29, 1977 FIRESTONE JEWELRY it hidesmle thimeDnits & Jewel, Hernenturing. Jetivrir, & Utirch Repotrine SUITE 315 ADVANCE BLDG. 23077 Greenfield at 9 Mile - (313) 557-1860 • THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Agency Res ettling Soviet Jews Learns to Understand Them By BEN GALLOB (Copyright 1977, JTA, Inc.) Staff members of a Jew- ish family agency, making their first efforts to resettle Soviet Jewish _ emigres, dis- WE GOT YOU COVERED If You Don't Want Our Blinds It's Curtains For You VERTICAL BLINDS LAMINATED SHADES SLIM LINE BLINDS WOVEN WOODS DRAPES w/matching WALLPAPER-BED SPREADS 25% to 30 0/a off Free Estimates Free Estimates HURTIG WINDOW INTERIORS SMALL BEQUESTS BUILD A STRONG ISRAEL If the" tradition of including the Jewish National Fund in the Will of every Jew were invariably followed, sufficient resources would be accumulated to ensure the future of the young Jewish State on a sound basis of land development, social welfare, and justice. A bequest to the Jewish, National Fund should be as 'traditional as having a Blue Box in one home. You may want your bequest to be dedicated to afforestation, to a village, a Nachlah, to a children's play area, to perpetual yahrzeit or kaddish, or to some form of permanent tribute in the names of persons dear to you. Consult the Foundation for Jewish National Fund, 22100 Greenfield, 968 0820. They will gladly co-operate with you in working out plans to meet your special requirements, in strict privacy. - covered that until they learned to understand the motivations, expectations and lifestyle of the new- corners, their settlement ef- forts were largely in- effective, according to a re- port by an agency official. Richard A. Dublin, dis- trict administrator of the Chicago Jewish Family and Community Service, report- ed that, initially, the staff workers "faced an ava- lanche of angry, frustrated and dissatisfied clients" and that "shouting matches were interrupting the tran- quility of our offices daily and sometimes, it seemed, almost hourly." Dublin's report on the problems and their solu- tions appeared in the cur- rent issue of the Journal of Jewish Communal Service, the quarterly publication of the National Conference of Jewish Communal Service, the service group for Jew- ish social work profes- sionals. He presented it at the annual meeting of the Conference in June, 1976. After an evaluation of the staff's working philosophy on resettlement and of the competence of the staff pro- fessionals in handling such problems, Dublin declared it became dear that "we simply did not understand the Russian immigrants." Her declared that. one "sig- nificant realization" , which emerged from the staff self-study of what went wrong was that the neik- _comers were really immi- grants and not refugees. He said the agency learned that, despite "the real prob- lems Of being Jewish" in Russia, most of the new ar- rivals were not targets for persecution "prior to their application for exit visas." Recognition of the fact that the staff was having "major communication problems" with the Russian Jews and the effort to learn the reasons, brought under- standing that "few of us re- alized the ramifications of . dealing with people who had developed and lived in WITHOUT Y WE'RE NOTHING. Without people, Glassman Olds would be just another vacant lot. And we'd be watching weeds grow instead of a business. Which is why we try to treat our customers well. We want you tp buy your cars from us. And we know we have to make it worth your while. Or else. People come first at Glassman Olds. ' They have to. Or, very simply, there'd be no Glassman Olds. WHERE PEOPLE STILL COME FIRST GLASSMAN OLDSMOBILE INC 28000 TELEGRAPH RD. • SOUTHFIELD • PHONE 354-3300 an 'administered society,' i to accept from the flmily in which the government agency. seeks to regulate every de- Therefore, he reported, tail of the lives of its citi-. "we decided to pool our ef- zens, a "society of unfree- forts with those of the dom." Rogers Park Jewish Corn- "The most basic prob- munity Center to develop a lem," he said, "is the ten- joint program" in which dency of the Soviet emi- the family agency profes- grants to view the family - sionals were not directly in- agency as simply an exten- volved with the newcomers. sion of the state." . He Dublin declared that with stressed that the new- this approach, it was pos- corners "have no frame of sible "to mobilize and uti- reference" with which to un- lize volunteers, to provide a derstand the "voluntary sec- forum for the provision of tor" of American society. vital information to the Rus- Another "practical" - as- sian Jews," while avoiding pect was that Russian immi- "contamination" 'of the vol- grants are used to "debat- unteers by the "bureaucra- ing or arguing" with Soviet cy" which the family bureaucrats. Dublin said agency represented to the that it took time, but eventu- Russian Jews. ally "we learned that these That program also made Soviet immigrants Are not - simply angry and hostile in their dealings with us but rather they are opeiating with learned patterns which had served them in good it possible for the ,agency to use "for its positive values" in resettlement of the group the orientation which is part of the life- style acquired by the Soviet immigrants as citizens of the Soviet society. FACIAL HAIR) •ERMANENTL REMOVED Eyebrows Neal., FREE CONSULTATION SHIRLEY PERSIN Registered Elects rolocpst ADVANCE BUILDING 23077 GREENFIELD Room 260 Near Northland & Providence Hospital PHONE 557-1108 Over 20 Years Experience SPITZER'S stead for many years" in the Soviet system. As the staff became aware of this, the profes- sionals "began to feel less personally attacked, less de- preciated and as a result feeling less angry in re- sponse," all of which made them better able to deal with the immigrants and with their 'teed to nego- tiate." Similarly, the use of offers from many members of the Jewish community to provide volunteer help to the newcomers was not a simple matter. Because of the immigrant view of the family agency as the "offi- cial authority and bureauc- racy," the decision was made "not to contaminate the volunteers by associ- ation with us" in volunteer work with the newcomers. 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