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made, was for the Russian
refugees," Mr. Goodman adds.
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expatriates and the relatives
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bloodshed."
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ay Maisel's family left
what is now Uzbekistan
for Israel, and later Eng-
land, because of the Bolshevik
Revolution. She grew up Or-
thodox in London's Persian-
Bokharan community and had
little contact with Ashkenazi
Jews.
How ironic that she married
an Ashkenazi man whose an-
cestors went from Lithuania to
South Africa.
Dr. Harry Maisel grew up in
Paarl, a wine-growing region
close to Cape Town, South
Africa — "probably one of the
most beautiful places in the
world," he says.
About 200 families comprised
Paarl's strongly Zionist Jewish
community when Dr. Maisel
was growing up there. He at-
tended an Afrikaans-speaking
school, where English was the
second language. At home, his
parents spoke Yiddish.
"We lived on the edge of a
black area. My father owned a
general store. Very early in life
[he recognized the separation
between the lives of blacks and
whites]. I used to sleep on the
floor of mud huts," the homes of
blacks he counted as friends.
Ray Maisel's father went to
South Africa for a business op-
portunity, and the family joined
him there in 1948. "We were on
the boat when the Nationalist
Party came to power," she says.
The Nationalist Party institut-
ed the apartheid system in
South Africa.
The family lived in Upington,
700 miles north of Cape Town.
Fifty families attended their
synagogue.

"None of us could speak
Afrikaans, and it was a strictly
Afrikaans-speaking area," Mrs.
Maisel says. Thanks to the help
of tutors, she and her siblings
caught up to their grade level
by year's end.
Ray Maisel earned a bach-
elor of commerce degree from
the University of Cape Town,
even though her father, a Kur-
dish Jew, did not believe in ed-
ucating women. Her mother
and grandmother were illiter-
ate.
Dr. Maisel also graduated
from the University of Cape
Town, did his medical training
there and then completed a fel-
lowship at McGill University in
Montreal.
"We thought we were back in
South Africa," he says of Mon-
treal. 'The apartheid there was
between the French and the
English."
South African apartheid was
enacted into law in 1948, al-
though before that "there was
a gentleman's agreement" about
it, Mrs. Maisel says.
The Maisels left South Africa
in 1959 and now live in West
Bloomfield.
Dr. Maisel came to Wayne
State University's anatomy de-
partment in 1961, serving as
its chairman from 1975 until
1995.
Since coming to Detroit, the
Maisels have become active at
Adat Shalom Synagogue, which
they joined in 1962. Dr. Maisel
was president of the synagogue
six years ago, and his wife is sis,
terhood president.
"The community's been good
to us," Dr. Maisel says. ❑