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Q: What is one lesson your father taught you? A: To be truthful and to have respect for others. To treat the stranger as ourselves. Q: One lesson om your mother? A: Happiness is working for the sake of your children. Q: What are the qualities you most deplore in men? A: Cowardice. Q: The qualities you most deplore in women? A: Egotism. Q: And the quality you most admire in yourself. A: The ability to forgive. Q: What is the quality you most deplore in other people? A: Treachery and lack of willpower. Q: Which figure in history do you most admire? A: George Bush. Q: Which figure do you hate? A: Lenin. Q: When were you most happy? A: My wedding. I was young, I was a great singer. Q: Of the Ten Commandments, which do you think are the most important? A: They are all important. Visiting with Manya Volftsun London Visiting with Manya Volftsun London 1984. They have four children, all born in New York: Erica, Maxine, David, and Nicole. In immigrating to the U.S., Manya's family followed the typical model: the grown children le Russia first. Initially Manya and Naum did not plan to go to America. They were satisfied with their lives. But they missed Yefim and Margarita and they wanted to have the opportunity to be close to the grandchildren they knew would come. Manya and Naum arrived in the U.S. at the end of September in 1982 and set up house in the Rockaway part of New York City, an area favored by many Russians. In 1986, the couple moved to a bigger apartment in Brooklyn. As Manya looks to an uncertain future, she talks about her hopes. "Everyone finds their own happiness," she says. "Family is the most important thing." Manya understands that she is coming to the end of her life. "If you have good health, that's enough. Now I am bedridden and my le leg is lost." But she quickly brightens when she talks about her husband. "I have a wonderful husband. Besides being my husband, he is my surrogate mother and father. He takes good care of me."

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