MESA ARTS

Spectacular Jewelry Show

Christopher's Enterprises
brings to MESA ARTS an
outstanding collection of
Native American and
high fashion jewelry.

Friday, May 7th
11-8

Saturday, May 8th
11-6

Collectibles and accessories
for both men and women.

135 E. Maple
Birmingham
(248) 723-9969

Chamber Music Society

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BRENTANO STRING QUARTET
WITH MITSUKO UCHIDA, PIANO

TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1999, 8:00 P.M. • ORCHESTRA HALL

Purcell: Fantasias for String Quartet
Haydn: Quartet in E flat Major, Op. 71, No. 3
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

CONCERT TICKETS $18-$48. $15 STUDENTS

CALL ORCHESTRA HALL: (313) 576 5111

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Artist's Reception

Saturday, May 7, 1999 • 7 pm-10 pm

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• Featuring •

Michigan Glass Designer Gail Leone

will be present to hand sign her glass

pieces. She has been featured on the

Carol Duvall show as seen on I IGTV.

5/7

1999

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• Custom Framing & Design
Original Art • Pottery • Sculpture

18 N. Saginaw St. • Pontiac, MI 48342

(248) 745-8875

Store Ilours: Tues-Fri • 10 am-5:30 pm, Sat 10 am-3 pm
Exhibition thru Max 29th

In Times Of Need

Serbian Jews, refugees in Hungary,
anguish about future.

Serbian Jews' arrival, the entire
Balint Jewish Community Center on
Revai Street had been turned into
makeshift dorm rooms, with a soup
kitchen and lounges.
n March 22, Aca Singer, 70,
thin and silver-haired,
But as the numbers of Jews arriving
picked up the telephone in
grew, the facilities became strained. A
his Belgrade office and
hotel on the outskirts of town was
dialed a number in Budapest. He was
used next until it, too, proved made-
connected with Gusztav Zoltai, a man
quate. Now the Serbian Jews, most of
1.0 years his junior.
which are . children, women and elder-
Speaking in Hungarian, Singer told
ly, are being housed in the Park Hotel
Zoltai the plan they had laid out the
in the central part of the city.
previous October was ready to be
The American Jewish Joint
implemented. Zoltai jotted down a few
Distribution Committee has been work-
details, hung up the phone, and set the
ing with the Hungarian community and
plan in motion.
the Yugoslav Jewish Federation to care
When the history of the war in
for the Serbian Jews.
Kosovo is writ-
"We've set up
ten, the plan
kindergarten and
these two men
school classes for
initiated will
around 50 chil-
barely earn a
dren," said Israel
footnote. Still,
Sela, the JDC's
Singer and Zoltai
country director for
have written a
– Hungary "Many of
short, remarkable
them — especially
chapter in post-
from border cities
Holocaust Jewish
like Subotica and
history.
Novi Sad —
For the first
already speak
time in half a
Hungarian so they
century, a Central
fit in rather easily
European Jewish
"Two of these
community has
parents
are teachers
Serbian Jewish re ugees talk with a
taken the lead in
Hungarian Jewish octo; right, in the from Serbia, and
helping to rescue
Budapest Jewish community center. they are creating a
a neighboring
curriculum that
will keep these chil-
Jewish communi-
ty in desperate need.
dren current at home as well as trans-
late for them on a daily basis." Jewish
Spearheading the work were these
youth in Budapest able to speak Serbo-
two Holocaust survivors, each of
which had lost his entire family Zoltai
Croatian are volunteering to take fami-
and Singer acted to ensure that the
lies for shopping and visits to doctors.
B'nai B'rith International is provid-
words "never again" had meaning in
their communities.
ing fresh fruit every day, along with
city transport and telephone cards.
The first bus rented by the Serb
Jewish community pulled up to the
British Jewish organizations have
made contributions for health insur-
Hungarian border at Szeged just after
noon on March 23 and found a repre-
ance and health care. The European
Council of Jewish Communities is
sentative_from the Budapest community
waiting for the new arrivals. More buses
also assisting, and the European
Jewish Congress transferred $20,000
came in the days to follow, bringing a
total of 160 Jews by week's end. By mid-
to the Hungarian community to help.
While the younger children are set-
April, that number had doubled again.
Jews say they arc not fleeing Serbia
tling into their temporary living
arrangements, college-aged youth are
because of anti-Semitism. They say it
is simply a matter of self-preservation
having a more difficult time adjusting.
The Jewish Agency for Israel has
during the constant NATO bombings.
quickly processed between 15 and 20
In Budapest in anticipation of the

EDWARD SEROTTA
Jewish Telegraphic Agency