Bnai Brith Opens Dr. Orliusky to Address
Lincoln Exhibit Third Midrasha Institute

Opening Session Feb. 11

WASHINGTON—The story of
Abraham Lincoln's association
with Jews of the Civil War
Dr. Harry M. Orlinsky, pro-1
period is told in a new exhibit fessor of Bible at the New
at the Bnai Brith museum here. York school of Hebrew Union
Original documents and pic- College-Jewish Institute of Re-
tures depicting the role Jews ligion, will be the first speaker
played in Lincoln's personal and in the third annual Midrasha
political life are on display in Institute, Wednesday evening,
commemoration of the annivers- Feb. 11, at the Esther Berman
Branch of the United Hebrew
ary of his birth.
The museum is located on the Schools.
Prof. Orlinsky will speak on
main floor of the Bnai Brith
Building a few blocks from the the subject "Law—Man's Rela-
,
White House. It is the only
museum in the nation's capital
devoted exclusively to Jewish
Americana.
One of the documents shown
is a letter written by Lincoln
to an Illinois Jewish political
figure, Abraham Jonas of Quin-
cy, whom the Civil War presi-
dent called "one of my most
valued friends."
Jonas, whose friendship with
Lincoln spanned 25 years, was
a political adviser who promot-
ed the Illinois lawyer's candi-
dacy for the Senate. He was a
leader in the Republican Party
and was later appointed post-
master of Quincy.
Jonas' sons fought on opposite
sides during the Civil War.
When Lincoln's old friend was
DR. HARRY M. ORLINSKY
dying, the President issued a
special order authorizing Charles
Jonas, who had been captured tion to Society and the World
Around Him," and will deal with
by Union troops. to reach his
father's bedside. The order is the Book of Deuteronomy.
The Midrasha Institute, spon-
included in the Bnai Brith ex-
hibit.
sored by the Hebrew Schools'
Another colorful Jewish fig- Midrasha, the College of Jewish
ure associated with Lincoln was Studies, will consist of four
Dr. Issachar Zacharie, a chirop- lectures on consecutive Wednes-
odist who doubled as an intel- day evenings. The lecturers who
ligence agent behind Confed- will follow Dr. Orlinsky will be:
Prof. William Irwin, Feb. 18;
erate lines.

Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberger,
Feb. 25, and Rabbi Ben-Zion
Bokser, March 4.
Institute sessions consist of
the major address and are fol-
lowed by discussion period. Par-
ticipants are seated at specially-
arranged tables, with discussion
leaders at each table to gear
questions related to the lec-
tures. More than 100 already
have registered for the series
this year.
Mrs. Carl Schiller heads the
Midrasha Institute committee.
Louis LaMed is chairman of the
Midrasha hoard. Actively par-
ticipating in planning the lec-
tures are Albert Elazar, super-
intendent of the United Hebrew
Schools, and Prof. Shiomo
Marenof, Dean of the Midrasha.
Dr. Orlinsky is editor-in-chief
of the New Translation of the
Hebrew Bible for the Jewish
Publication Society of America.
The first Jewish scholar ever
invited to take part in an
authorized Christian translation
of the Bible into English, he
was the sole Jewish member of
the distinguished committee of
22 scholars which, in 1952. pro-
duced the Revised Standard
Version of the Old Testament.
Dr. Orlinsky is co-translator
of a five-volume English edition
of Rashi's famed commentary
on the Pentateuch. His latest
book, "Ancient Israel," a study
of the society that produced the
Bible, published by Cornell
Press, has been hailed by
scholars as the best short his-
tory of Israel available.
He is chairman of the Ameri-
can Friends of the Israel Ex-
ploration Society; a Fellow of
the American Academy for Jew-
ish Research: a member of the
executive committee of the
American Oriental Society, and
a member of the editorial com-
mittee of Jewish Apocryphal
Literature and the Society of
Biblical Literature.

A graduate of the University
of Toronto, Dr. Orlinsky re-
ceived his PhD from Dropsie
College in 1935. While studying
at Dropsie. he was a Fellow at
the University of Pennsylvania
from 1931 to 1935. From 1935
to 1936. he was a Fellow at the
American School of Oriental Re-
search in Jerusalem and at the
Hebrew University.

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