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Dr. Harry Orlinsky
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TORONTO -
Dr. Ham Orlinsky. 84. Professor of Biblical Literature at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. New York, died March 21 of cancer in a nursing retirement home in Owings Mills. Maryland. Orlinsky. a native of Canada, was authenticator of four of the Dead Scrolls now housed in Jerusalem, m in Owen Sound. Oni.. he is sur^ved by his wife of 58 years, Donya, t>yosons. Walter S. Orlinsky and S. Z^e Orlinsky, of Baltimore, three grandchildren, a brother, David Orlinsky and a sister. Ruby Halpem, both of Tbronto.
He w*<;a graduate of the University of Toronto, where he was a habitue ^ the pool room at Hart House, aad a postgraduate in Hebrew literature at Dropsie College, Philadelphia.
As a professor he was known for his sense of humor, once telling his students that diey did not need to face every challenge head on. "Sometimes," he said,"you shoiild turn around and run like hell."
Dr. Harry Orlinsky
It was a cloak-and-dagger qperadon which led 16 his audienticationof the Dead Sea Scrolls. He had packed his car for a trip to Toronto on July 1, 1954, when he got an emergency call from the Israeli Consulate in New York. They wanted him to look at \he
scrolls, being offered for sale by a Syrian prelate for S200.000, without divulging the interest of Israel.
The Consulate sent him to a branch of the Chemical Trust bank in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York where he introduced himself as "Mr. Green"and went to a basement vault. He was dripping wet with perspiration after an hour of checking in the hot vault but took another hour, much to the annoyance of die prelate's representative, to settle a bet he had with a colleague whether a certain mark in one character was a flyspeck. a defect in the material or a pan of the character. **And wouldn't you know the other guy was right,"Orlinsky said at the lime.
He dien went to a phone and called an unlisted number, voicing an earlier agreed upon code word: lechayim. The call set off a celebration in the Israeli consulate.
Orlinsky was a member of a committee Uiat produced the 1952 Revised Standard Version of die Bible, the official bible.Jif the Protestant movement in North America, being the only Jewish scholar to be invited into die group. —
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NEW YORK (JTA) -
"Polish children will learn about the Holocaust." die prime minister of Poland. Jan Olszewski, pledged at a meeting with Jewish leaders at die Worjd Jewish Congress headquarters hei^ last week.
Poland's educational curriculum, and textbooks will "faithftilly and honestly" portray die tragic fate of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust, the visiting prime minister said, according to Elan Steinberg, executive director of the WJC.
That will end four decades of silence on the subject during which Polish youth learned nothing in their schools of the history of the Holocaust or even of their own national history, while Poland was under Communist rule, the prime minister said.
He was responding to Benjamin Meed, president -of die American
Gathering/hederation of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, who urged the Polish leader to make sure Polish children are properly taught about terrible events of the Holocaust.
When Rudi Popkin, president of the Jewish National Fund, spoke of seeing swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti on a recent visit to Poland. Olszewski blamed die lack of education of Polish youdi on die history of those times.
Speaking for members of his own generation, he said the sign of die swastika was as horrible for them to behold as it was for Jews.
Olszewski recalled that this month marks the 47th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, which he witnessed as a 13-year-old.
He said he saw ghetto fighters defy' die Nazis by hanging Star of David banners alongside the red and white national colors of Poland.^^^^^^^^^^.u^^^
Responding to Kalman Sultanik, president of die Federation of Polish Jews, the prime minister said diat Jewish claims to property will be taken into account in the drafting of privatization legislation.
Olszewski was asked to ensure that the dispute over the convent at Auschwitz would be resolved quickly widi the transfer of the nuns to a new building off the site of die former death camp.
He replied diat the possibility of government intervention was limited by the natiire of die dispute but it would do what it could to expedite the implementation of agreements already reached on the issue.
Olszewski told WJC Secretary-General Israel Singer diat he would be honored to address the interaation-al contingent of Jewish youdi who will arrive in Auschwitz later this mondi to participate in the March of the Living commemoration.
WASHINGTON (JTA) -
The United States and Israel are looking the other way at a meeting Palestinian leaders from die territories had last week with Yasser Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization chairman.
When asked about die meeting. State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said die United States had die same reaction as Israel. ...
She then quoted a spokesman foi" Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir as saying the meeting was "irrelevant" , to die six-mondi-old Middle East peace process.
The Israelis, she said, "pointed out in their statement die importance of the peace process. We couldn't agree more."
"Arafat was in Cairo recovering from an airplane crash landing indie Libyan desert. Among die Palestinians who met with him were Faisal Husseini and Hanan Ashrawi. who are not part of the peace talks but who do meet regularly widi Secretary of Slate James Baker.
The delegation apparendy did not include any Palestinians wIk) are part of die official delegation to die bilateral talks wife Israel, which resume April 27 in Washington.
Tutwd€*said die fact dial Husseini and Ashrawi met widi ArafatlvouldTrot affect Baker's ftiture dealings with themr '■ '•■
"The PLO, asjou well know, is not part of diese negotiations, and it is not relevant to us who the Pales— tiniaris do_or don't meet wiih^" Tutwiler told reporters.
^ "And the PLO, furthermore, as you know, is not an intermediary. They don't have a role. We don't have a dialogue with them," she said.
Tutwiler recalled that six moiithis ago in Madrid, when the first difectpeace talks begian between Arab delegations and Israel, there were hundreds of fLO members
Uiere who met widi Palestinians attending the talks.
"That's not any different in diis instance, in my mind, dian what has been going on" in Cairo, Tutwiler added. ■'We do not control who people do or do not talk to."
NOTICE
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1992 Annual Meeting
1 The 1992 Annual Meeting of the Jewish National Fund of Canada will be held in Montreal, Quebec, at the Montefiore Club, 1195 Guy Street, Montreal, Quebec on Sunday, May 31, 1992 at 10:30 a.m.
2. All members of the Jewish National Fund of Canada (Keren Kayemeth LeTsrael Inc.) are invited to submit nomirwtions for directors and/or officers whose term of office is due to expirfe^^uch nominations should be addressed to:
Mr. William (Bill) Goldberg, 1992 Nominating Committee, 1980 Sherbrooke Street West, Suite 5(X). Montreal, Quebec, H3H 1E8
and are to be received not later than fifteen days following publication of this notice.
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