Myla
Goldberg

married in her birth state of
Maryland," he said of the best-selling
novelist. "It was a little different as
weddings go. Myla and her hus-
band Jason [Little], also an
author, used the roaring (20s
theme."
Dubin, whose grandmother,
Clara Dubin, is the sister of
Myla's grandmother, Gertie
Goldberg, has been able to fol-
low Myla's career and attended
her recent talk at the Jewish
Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit's Jewish
Book Fair. He is quite proud of
Goldberg's writing and of the
motion picture adaptation of
her best-selling book Bee
Season, opening nationwide this
week, starring Richard Gere and
Myla Goldberg playing the accordion at her
Juliette Binoche. "It's a real honor
2000 wedding
our family has so much talent,
and Myla is one of our brightest mem-
The wedding that Art Dubin of West
bers;' Dubin said. "It takes a real talent
Bloomfield attended on Aug. 26, 2000,
to put pen to paper and she does it
was hardly a traditional one. "It'was
with ease
when my cousin Myla Goldberg was

Adam
Fellegi

wife, Dr. Ann Silverman and children
Daniel, 19, Rivka, 17, Sarah, 15, and Rachel
10, who have also been to Hungary to visit
Fellegi.
"Adam lives in
Budapest, in the same
apartment his parents
lived in," Dr. Spitzer said.
"He lives near where my
late mother, Dr. Hedvig
Rosenthal-Spitzer
(Fellegi's first cousin),
grew up. We were there
most recently a couple of
years ago, en route, when
we went to Israel for my
daughter's bat mitzvah.
We also visited with
On Mackinac Island, Adam Fellegi, seated, with Dr.
Adam's brother, who is a
Robert Spitzer and Dr. Ann Silverman and their
retired colonel from the
daughters Sarah, Rachel and Rivka.
Hungarian anny'."
Dr. Spitzer said he plans to bring Fellegi
When Dr. Robert Spitzer of West
back to Mackinac again this summer dur-
Bloomfield learned his cousin, award-win-
ing a weeklong cultural festival and maybe
ning recording artist Hungarian pianist
also to Detroit in the spring.
Adam Fellegi, would be performing in the
"I guess none of us thinks much about
United States last summer, he Made
being related to famous people," Dr. Spitzer
arrangements for him to make a special
said."My wife and I are busy professionals
stop in Michigan.
with very real lives of our own, and do not
Having played in countries including
have to live vicariously. We are, of course,
Germany, Italy, Austria, Russia and the
pleased about our esteemedrelatives, but
Netherlands, Fellegi brought his classical
have plenty of personal satisfaction from
music performance to a concert series at
our own accomplishments. Put it another
venues including the back porch of
way. My wife and I are both listed in Best
Moondance Cottage, Dr. Spitzer's home on
Doctors in America. So whose famous rela-
Mackinac Island.
tives are we?"
Joining Dr. Spitzer on the island were his

Raymond
Zussman

A family photo, taken at Myla Goldberg's wedding in Maryland.

Art Dubin is at the left.

Chaim
Weizmann

Sam Greenblatt of Walled
Lake said he is "very honored
to have a family member who
was a part of the history of
the Israel!' While Greenblatt
never met Chaim
Weizmann, Israel's first pres-
ident, he said he remembers
when his late sister Sadie did.
"She was a teenager and.Chaim,
who was my father Harry Greenblatt's
first cousin, came to Toronto where we
lived," he said. "He was in town for a
rally and my father got a special pass
to see him and Sadie went, too. My
father said as soon as Chaim saw him
he hugged him and kissed him.. They
grew up in Russia together and knew
each other as children.
"When I look at old pictures of
Chaim, I see a resemblance to my
father. They have the same ears."

Chaim Weizmann

Zussman was a tank officer in the
United States Army. While leading a
mission, he guided a disabled tank
through booby traps set by the
Germans, and killed 19 enemy sol-
diers, took 93 prisoners and various
weapons. For that, Milton Zussman
said, "He was the first Jewish
[Congressional] Medal of Honor win-
ner in WI/VII."
Nine days after his heroic feat
earned him the award, Raymond
Zussman was killed in action in
France. Today, in his hometown of
Hamtramck, is Zussman Park, named
in his honor.

Sam Greenblatt

Raymond Zussman

Although Milton Zussman's uncle
Raymond Zussman died when he
was only 27 years old, his legacy lives

On.

"He was 30 years younger than my
dad, four years older than me
remembered Milton of Bloomfield
Hills. In 1944, 2nd Lt. Raymond

Milton Zussman

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