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"The military battle for Jerusalem ended a generation • ontroversy over the find- ing for a new Jewish mu- seum has erupted here, with city officials dis- agreeing sharply with the muse- urn's director over the museum's operating budget and overall or- ganization. Amnon Barzel, the Israeli di- rector of the museum, set to open in 1997, has criticized Berlin city officials for using the Jewish Mu- seum as a pretext to get funding for other museums. He said the city's original idea was for a separate, independent Jewish museum with sufficient funding for a variety of programs. But now, he said, the Jewish Museum is to be a part of the city's wider museum system, re- sulting in sharply reduced fund- ing. "I didn't think it would be so difficult to establish a Jewish mu- seum 50 years after the end of the war," Mr. Barzel told foreign journalists at a recent news con- ference. He also said the city has given him no staff and has cut his promised budget so dramatical- ly that he does not have the means with which to work. Mr. Barzel maintained that even though the city's top official for culture, Ulrich Roloff-Momin, has been generally supportive of the new museum, other high-lev- el civil servants have been block- ing his plans. He said he needs about $5 mil- lion annually to fund lectures, courses, films, videos and inter- active exhibits, but that city offi- cials have told him he can have only $107,140 each year. Mr. Barzel admitted that his plans for interactive exhibits which employ computer technol- ogy are ambitious, but he added that the equipment is needed to attract the modern visitor. Reiner Gunzer, the city official in charge of the museum project, rejected Mr. Barzel's criticisms. There are financial difficulties facing the city of Berlin. Mr. Gunzer, who has been pushing for a Jewish museum since the late 1960s, said the pro- ject had always been envisioned as part of Berlin's larger munic- ipal museum system. Mr. Gunzer, replying to Barzel's charges, said Mr. Barzel was given two co-workers, but that he found them unqualified. Mr. Gunzer said Mr. Barzel could have handled the problem differently — by trying to work and improve his co-workers, rather than complaining to jour- nalists. Mr. Gunzer also spoke of the financial difficulties facing the city of Berlin, noting that every aspect of public life has been hit by budget cuts and that more are - on the way. Mr. Gunzer said Mr. Barzel won a competition for the direc- tor's job in part because he said he could bring sponsors to help fund the project. To date, by Mr. Barzel's own admission, there are only five sponsors, and the city is disap- pointed with the lack of private supporters for the museum, Mr. Gunzer said. The Jewish Museum, designed by the Polish-born Jewish archi- tect Daniel Libeskind, is cur- rently under construction next to the Berlin Museum, which itself is undergoing a massive renova- tion. The official name of the pro- ject is the Extension of the Berlin Museum with the Jewish Muse- um Department. Construction costs for the Jew- ish Museum are estimated at $85 million and are being under- written by German taxpayers. Mr. Barzel has already mount- ed one exhibit in an improvised exhibition hall in the basement of the Berlin Museum's head- quarters. The exhibit features photog- raphy by Edward Serotta, a pho- tographer from Savannah, Ga., whose pictures of Jewish life in the wartorn Bosnian capital of Sarajevo are on display. ❑