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New York-based newspaper, the
being," says Cantor David Gutman of
Forward which they read and discuss in
Congregation Beit Kodesh in Livonia.
Yiddish and English.
Adds Cantor Sidney Resnick of Temple
The goal of the weekly'meeting,
Beth El in Windsor, "She has a youthful
which attracts as many as 130 residents
outlook and enthusiasm that impresses
and friends, is preserving the language of everyone she meets."
a centuries-old civilization that was near-
Zellman, 94, is a former piano
ly destroyed in the flames of Nazism.
teacher and accompanist for the Detroit
"Leo Weber decided that although
Public Schools. But, although she is offi-
he, his family and countless other Jews
cially retired, she will never leave the
were dispersed, the Yiddish language
piano.
and culture should survive," says Myrna
Within the past few weeks, she
Katz, Fleischman Residence/Blumberg
joined Cantor Resnick in running a
Plaza program director.
third Passover seder for seniors at the
Weber of West Bloomfield has
Jewish Community Center of
missed only eight sessions in the past 12
Metropolitan Detroit's Jimmy Prentis
years, Katz says. He also has led a study
Morris Building, and still found time to
group on Jewish topics at the B'nai
compose a suite of music based on
B'rith Rex Lodge and a
Israeli themes. She also has accompanied
project to collect
at the Workmen's Circle Warsaw Ghetto
Yiddish books and
uprising commemoration.
send them to an
Deciding which of her many activi-
agency that collects
ties has been most satisfying is difficult.
and preserves them.
"I think what I've enjoyed the most is
Weber, now 81,
the shows I produced at the Oak Park
who owned a scrap
JCC," she says.
Leo Weber
metal business in
Every few months for about 10 years,
Detroit, believes the
Zellman would stage an original musical
determination he gained during a
on Jewish themes. Some concentrated
painful and dangerous youth has led to
on Jewish holidays, such as "Chanuka
his continued "determination and moti-
Lights," while others took a wider view,
vation" as a volunteer.
such as "Israel and the USA."
"There are people who cannot speak
Zellman of Oak
their minds, cannot think their minds,
Park traces her love of
because someone condemns you and
Judaism and music to
does not give you your life," Weber says.
her father, who was
He vowed a long time ago that this
both a cantor and a
would never happen to him.
rabbi. In 1918, the
Weber was only a child when the
family moved from
Germans forced his family to leave their
Pennsylvania to
native Poland for Russia. They stayed for
Detroit, where Rabbi
Lillian Zellman
six years, fighting off virulent anti-
Zellman had accepted
semitism in Russia while running a suc-
a position in a small
cessful candy-making business. Weber's
synagogue in northeast Detroit. Lillian
parents were killed in an unsuccessful
Zellman earned a bachelor's degree from
attempt to flee Russia for Palestine, and
the Detroit College of Musical Art, and
Weber himself barely escaped.
began a career that included working
Weber says he has always volun-
with many notable rabbis and cantors.
teered, even as a child, helping his
Her work was never limited to
mother prepare for Shabbat.
accompanying. She helped myriad
In addition to his work in preserving
young girls prepare their confirmation
Yiddish language and culture, he
cantatas, published seven children's
belongs to the Zionist Organization of
pieces for piano and wrote and per-
America, B'nai B'rith, Masons, Shriners
formed in a variety of musical styles.
and Congregation Shaarey Zedek.
"Lillian feels lucky that she is able to
"I am not volunteering for fame; I do
be involved in the Center and the com-
not want to get medals. I go because I
munity, because she has no family here," ,
feel people need some light to come into says Sharon Gaspas Goldenberg, senior
their lives," he says.
adult coordinator at the Oak Park JCC.
Her son, Mel, is a classical music broad-
caster in Chicago.
"This involvement may give her per-
For more than 70 years, the leading lady sonal gratification, but it does not com-
of the piano at the Detroit area's Jewish
pare to the joy that she has given others
Community Centers, synagogues and
over the many years that she has offered
organizations has been Lillian Zellman.
her services to the center." 0
"Lillian is a wonderful, talented,
friendly and good-hearted human

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