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on a mission in the Sinai desert.
After the Six-Day War, Is-
raelis discovered Feinberg's re-
mains under a palm tree. The
tree had grown from date seeds
he was carrying in his pocket
London in 1840, showed re- at the time of his death.
markable talent as a child. His
Feinberg was reburied on
father was a businessman, but Mount Herzl, where he received
his brother and sister were a state funeral.
highly gifted artists.
Solomon was admitted to the
Q: Is it true that a former Uni-
Royal Academy before he
turned 15 and exhibited his versity of Michigan professor
work when he was 18, the helped discover uranium X2, also
youngest artist ever to have known as Element 91?
been shown at the academy.
A: His name was Kasimir Fa-
Painting mostly pre-
jans.
Raphaelite style, Solomon cre-
Born in 1887 in Warsaw, Fa-
ated a number of works on jans
was a physical chemist
biblical themes. His public ca-
who
served
on staff at the Uni-
reer came to an end in 1873
versity
of
Munich.
In 1932, he
when he was convicted of hav-
received
funding
from
the Rock-
ing illicit relations with a boy.
efeller
Foundation
to
establish
A drug addict and alcoholic, he
thereafter supported himself by an institute of physical chem-
making beautiful drawings sold istry at the university. He
served as director there until
cheaply to art dealers.
1935, when the Nazis forced
Solomon died in 1905.
him to step down.
In 1936, Fajans came to the
Q: Was Malcolm Forbes Jewish? United States, accepting a po-
From reader A.P. in Southfield sition as professor of chemistry
A: No. The late millionaire at the University of Michigan,
publisher, born Malcolm where he was a discoverer of
Stevenson Forbes in 1919 in uranium X2.
New York, was a Christian of
Scottish heritage. His father,
Bertie Charles, was born in
Scotland and immigrated to the
United States, where he found-
ed Forbes magazine in 1917.

Q: I seem to remem-
ber an interesting sto-
Ty about a date tree IrrA:
in Israel that grew ,
from the pocket „z i r.: '11.4 •
of someone
Jewish. Can
Tell Me Why
help me out?

A: Can Tell
Me Why help
out? That, my
friend, is not the ques-
tion. Indeed, one should instead
wonder, is there anything Tell
Me Why cannot do? I think not.
The story you no doubt recall
concerns Avshalom Feinberg.
Born in 1889, Feinberg was
a founder, with Aharon Aaron
sohn, of Nili, an anti-Turkish
network group formed in Israel
during World War I. He was
handsome and dashing and
wrote numerous letters about
Jewish life in Eretz Yisrael dur-
ing the early part of the centu-
ry. He was killed in 1917 while

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