October 03, 1997 • Page Image 9
…gip` As,* \ YNNE MEREDITH COHN toff Writer hen Harold Berry was 20, his grandfather handed him a chart trac- ing the family's lineage back hundreds of years. On the chart was a tiny entry: "Wilno Gaon (Elijah ben Solomon)." Little did Berry know that the innocuous entry referred to one of the greatest Jewish scholars of modern times. At the time, Berry didn't really care. "When you're 20 years old, you don't have much of a time sense. You ...…

















































