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Museum Director, Quits
STAFF REPORT
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hen Arthur Rosen-
blatt resigned re-
cently as head of the
U.S. Holocaust Museum, the
official reason was his desire
to move on to new profes-
sional challenges.
But the real story behind
the resignation of the well-
known museum administra-
tor may be more indicative of
the controversies that have
impeded the creation of a fit-
ting memorial to the millions
who perished in the
Holocaust.
According to one source,
Rosenblatt, who had been
was Vice President for Ar-
chitecture at the Metro-
politan Museum of Art in
New York before accepting
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the Holocaust Museum job,
was concerned that plans for
the museum, slated to be
built on the Mall in
Washington, were not com-
patible with the somber
meaning of the building.
According to sources close to
the Holocaust Council, Rosen-
blatt was also frustrated by
the endless wrangling over
the museum's design — and
the Byzantine politics of the
Council.
Rosenblatt, who is on vaca-
tion, could not be reached for
comment.
According to the Council,
Rosenblatt's resignation will
be effective September 30 —
about the time final drawings
of the museum are expected
to be ready. A replacement
may be announced in several
weeks.
Israeli Envoy Rejects
Jackson Diplomacy
Washington (JTA) — Israeli
Ambassador Moshe Arad
made it clear to the Rev. Jesse
Jackson Sunday that neither
he nor any other individual
could be an intermediary in
the Arab-Israel conflict.
Arad "politely" rejected
such a role for Jackson when,
during a two-and-a-half hour
meeting at the envoy's home,
Jackson mentioned several
times the close contacts he
had with Palestinians and
some Arab leaders, an Israeli
source said.
Negotiations must be car-
ried out by the parties involv-
ed with the help of the U.S.
government, Arad told
Jackson.
At a news conference after
the meeting, Jackson seemed
to go along with this view say-
ing that negotiations should
"basically be government-to-
government contacts." But he
also noted that "whether
government or non-govern-
ment, we must improve the
climate?'
The meeting which Jackson
requested and which he told
Arad "was overdue" covered a
wide range of issues from the
current tensions between
blacks and Jews in the United
States to the Arab-Israel
conflict
Arad opened the meeting by
raising concern about expres-
sions of anti-Semitism by
some blacks, especially in
Chicago where some black
leaders have made open-anti-
Semitic remarks following
the dismissal of an aide to
Mayor Eugene Sawyer who
had given anti-Semitic
speeches.
But when he was asked
about the Chicago situation,
Jackson replied: "It's not just
Chicago and an aide to the
mayor. It's the mayor of New
York himself saying that any
Jew who would vote for me
`would be crazy? That state-
ment traumatized many peo-
ple, it hurts many people. Yet
we will not surrender to that
level of politics."
New York City Mayor Ed-
ward Koch, who has been
heavily criticized for his
remarks about Jackson dur-
ing the New York primary, ac-
tually said that Jews and
other supporters of Israel
would be crazy to vote for
Jackson because of his sup-
port of a Palestinian state.
On Monday, Morris Abram,
chairman of the Conference of
Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations, issued
a statement calling the
meeting "appropriate?' But
he said the conversation "is
not a substitute for a meeting
of Rev. Jackson with represen-
tatives of the American
Jewish community.
In a more sharply worded
statement, Seymour Reich,
international president of
B'nai B'rith, called on
Jackson to "refrain from
dodging the real issues and
meet the American Jewish
leaders in a sincere effort to
resolve the serious problems
between blacks and Jews."
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