THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 12 Friday, April 21,419 14 Clothier 647-8054 126 S. Woodward, Birmingham Mon., Tues., Wed., Sat. 10-6 Thurs. S Fri. 10-9 FOR THE ULTIMATE IN FASHION-RIGHT FORMALWEAR RENTALS & SALES Celebrate the occasion with a fresh ap- proach to formalwear. Featuring an exten- sive selection. The newest styles and colors. FEATURING Westwood, Newport, Woodstock, Windsor, Tux Tails, 21 Colored Shirts, Flared Pants, Volare Boots • WEDDINGS * PROMS • CRUISES • EVERY IMPORTANT SOCIAL EVENT .555PtlicPPvtibON. 14 1+ • r514•SSEINI.tigfPlitelW. Russian Immigrants Are Trying to Repay the Assistance of the Detroit Community Celia and Arno Sosenky arrived in Detroit from the Soviet Union in January 1979 with their daughter and son-in-law. They joined a son who arrived here a year earlier, Resettlement Service, a member agency of the Jewish Welfare Federation, found them an apartment in Oak Park and helped them get settled. Soon after they arrived, they visited the headquar- t'ers of the Allied Jewish Campaign Women's Di- vision's Phonogift, a tele- phone solicitation effort which reaches 8,000 area women. Happy 85th Birthday To Our Wonderful Dad and Zada ISADORE SHAPIRO From Your Loving Children, Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren was so impressed with what I learned about how money is col- lected and distributed to different agencies," Mrs. Sosenky said. Mrs. Sosenky visited Phonogift again this year, and acted as interpreter for Women's Division workers and the immigrants. "I decided I should do something to help," she said. "I was unable to con- tribute very much so I de- cided to contribute my help. I made a list of 35 Russian immigrants and asked them to give to the Campaign." Every one of the immig- rants contacted by Mrs. Sosenky made a pledge to the Campaign. "They were happy to be asked," she said. "They want to feel a part of the Jewish community and to help other Jews. Her husband has also been donating his time to the Jewish community. He works as a volunteer English teacher for recent immigrants at the Jewish Community Center. "There are so many people leaving Russia now that it is impossible to hold English classes for all of them in Rome, where they stay for several months be- fore coming to the U.S.," he said. "Only the young people can learn English in Rome, so there are people coming here who know not a word of English. It is very hard for the teachers who don't know Russian to teach them at the beginning, and that's where I help," he said. The Sosenky's fluent English helped them ad- just to their new home more easily than many Soviet immigrants. "We were lucky because YOUNG WOMEN OF JEWISH NATIONAL FUND Proudly Present Their 8th ANNUAL AUCTION Sunday, May 6, 1979 at 7:00 P.M. TEMPLE EMANU-EL, 14450 W. 10 Mile, Oak Park GUEST AUCTIONEERS MARILYN TURNER 4/141 JOHN KELLY of CHANNEL 7'S "KELLY AND COMPANY" with Joel Morse and Hanley Gurwin WINE AND CHEESE PREVIEW 7:00 P.M. DONATION $2.50 AT THE DOOR daS4lic43 BIDDING STARTS AT 8:00 P.M. DOOR PRIZE For further information call JNF office - 557-6644 CELIA and ARNO SOSENKY we know English," Mrs. Sosenky said. "But we are unlucky because we can't find jobs." The Sosenkys worked as teachers in Kishinev. Mrs. Sosenky taught Russian to high school students for more than 30 years. Since Kishinev was part of Romania before World War II, Mrs. Sosenky learned Romanian and has worked as a translator from English and Romanian to Russian. Arno ,Sosenky, a native of Germany, was a professor of German language at the Conservatory (Institute of Arts) in Kishinev for 15 years. He has also taught English, translated scien- tific works from German and English into Russian, and written several schol- arly articles on the German language. Despite their desire to work and their inability to find suitable jobs, the Sosenkys are happy to be in the U.S. Sosenky still has vivid memories of the 10 years he spent in Soviet prison camps. He was arrested in 1936 while he was working for a German-language newspaper. "The editor — who was a Communist — was accused of anti-Soviet attitudes, and I was accused of knowing about his atti- tudes and of hiding them," he said. He was in prison three years. He was arrested again in 1948 and accused of "cos- mopolitanism." "This was a time when everything Rus- sian had to be better than everything not Russian," he said. "If you said you liked Beethoven better than Tchaikowsky, you were anti-Soviet." Sentenced to 10 years, he served seven. "In Russia, people have to have two faces," he said, - "one for speaking to col- leagues and students, when you can't say what you think, and the other for speaking with your family. "Here in the United States you can say what you think. In Russia you can only think." The Sosenkys have vis- ited area synagogues and youth groups and meetings of adult Jewish organiza- tions to talk about their ex- periences in the Soviet Union and here in the U.S. "We are always ready to help people and be helpful because we have gotten so much help from the Jewish people," Mrs. Sosenky said. Stulberg and Stern Add to Music Study's Glories Pianist Neal Stulberg and violinist Mitchell Stern gave evidence Sunday of remarkable contributions to music by a leading De- troit women's organization. Appearing in the annual artist concert of Music Study Club, at the resusci- tated Orchestra Hall, they lent their names to a large number of promising musi- cians who received encouragement from the women's group in reaching the heights predicted for them. Stulberg and Stern now will be part of the growing family of musicians who were provided large audi- ences before whom they proved their skills, many of them having risen to great heights. Itzhak Pearlman, for example, had the Music Study Club of Detroit among the first organiza- tions to give him a boost. He has not forgotten it and he mentions it when he meets Detroiters. Many others achieved fame after appearances at Music Study Club concerts. Stulberg, son of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Stulberg of Detroit, is among the native born Detroiters who are achieving glory in music. At Sunday's concert, be- fore an appreciative audi- ence, Stulberg was superb in Schubert's "Sonata in A Major, Opus 20" and Pro- koviev's "Sonata No. 7, Opus 83." Out of his Pro- koviev emerged a com- plete orchestral triumph. Stern matched him in brilliance in his interpreta- tions of Elgar's "Sonata in E Minor, Opus 82"; Schubert's "Rondo Brilliant in B Minor, D895" and Paganini — Kreisler's "LaCam- panella." The concert achieved added significance with the appearance of a third musi- cian of expressive ability, Robert McDonald, who was accompanist for Stern in the Elgar piece. —P.S. Some 72 percent of U.S. Jewish voters voted for Democrats in the November 1978 elections.