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MARVIN HOWARD

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PARTNERS: Wife Beatrice, six children, seven grand-
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spelling of Megiddo, a city
mentioned many times in
Scripture. According to
this explanation the first
syllable ar would stand
for ir("city") or har
("mountain"). Others sug-
gest that Armageddon is a
corruption of Har Mo'ed
("mount of assembly") or
of Har Migdo ("God's
fruitful mountain") which
is taken to refer to Mount
Zion. This last is sup-
ported by several
passages in revelations,
the imagery of which
resembles that of Joel,
who envisages the power
of God proceeding from

mount Zion to battle
against the forces of Evil.
Since use of the term Ar-
mageddon is accompanied by
fears exceptionally impor-
tant, note in the above
quotation the emphasis of
the terminology as being
"Christian eschatology."
Therefore, anything like
Jewish conceptuality is
completely ruled out.
With fears often incited by
some religious misconcep-
tions, it is well to advise our
readers to abandon fear
when they hear warnings of
Armageddon. When you
hear it, refrain from yielding
to panic. ❑

NEWS

Dispute Over Haggadah
Seems Near Resolution

Geneva (JTA) — The
Polish government and the
Jewish community of Berlin
have agreed to end their
legal dispute over ownership
of the famed Wolf Hag-
gadah.
An agreement between the
Polish government and the
Berlin Jewish community
was reached through the
efforts of the World Jewish
Congress, which represents
the German community.
The accord stipulates that
the 13th-century Haggadah,

In exchange, Israel
will donate a
symbolic cultural
object to the
Jewish Museum in
Warsaw.

which before World War II
belonged to the Berlin Jew-
ish community, would be
given to the National Jewish
Library in Jerusalem.
In exchange, Israel will
donate a symbolic cultural
object to the Jewish Museum
in Warsaw.
But the matter has not yet
been resolved. The Hag-
gadah's putative owner,
Natan Hecht of Montreal,
and his representative,
Berry Gross of Brooklyn,
N.Y., who tried to sell the
Haggadah at auction here,
still have not agreed to
relinquish their right to the
rare piece of Judaica, which
is valued at about $1.5 mill-
ion.
Hecht and Gross are
scheduled to appear at a
Geneva court hearing on
March 16.

If the court upholds the
original agreement, the
Haggadah will be sent to
Warsaw, where it will be
formally presented to the
Israeli ambassador to be
conveyed to Jerusalem.
The Haggadah was to have
gone on the block at the
prestigious Geneva firm of
Habsburg and Feldman's
Judaica auction in June
1989, but was withdrawn at
the last minute because of
the conflicting claims of
ownership.
It was placed in custody of
the court in December 1989
until its ownership could be
determined.
The then Jewish com-
munities of East and West
Berlin, represented by the
WJC, claimed the French-
language Haggadah had
been left to the Berlin
Jewish community by its
owner, a German Jew nam-
ed Albert Wolf who died in
1907. It had become part of
the Jewish Kunstmuseum in
Berlin.
Mr. Wolf's collection was
seized by the Nazis in 1938
and dispersed in Eastern
Europe during the war. It
was found by Russians in
1944 and brought to the
Jewish Historical Institute
in Warsaw, where it stayed
for 40 years.
The Haggadah, on loan
from the Warsaw Institute,
had been seen in New York
in 1984 at the Jewish Muse-
um. Shortly after it returned
to Poland, the Polish Min-
istry of Culture reported it
stolen.
Mr. Hecht, a Canadian col-
lector of Judaica, claims he
paid the Poles $200,000 in
bribes for the Haggadah.

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