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...response to Klein’s criticisms, President and Director of Harvard Hillel Bernie Steinberg issued an open letter to Klein last Friday. The letter stated Harvard Hillel’s intent to not support the exhibit—which the Progressive Jewish Alliance hosted and sponsored—but rather to provide a venue in which it could be freely discussed...
...Steinberg criticized Klein’s statements as inflammatory and divisive. “Don’t we Jews have enough enemies? Don’t you think it’s time that we stopped making enemies of each other?” the letter read...
...free-for-all. Allied soldiers in Germany later found stashes of plundered art in a cavernous salt mine, in castles, piled to the eaves in churches, and in the private homes of Nazis. "For the Nazis, Paris was like an art toyland," says the Israel Museum's curator, Shlomit Steinberg. "Everything was free...
...World War II. The Israel Museum exhibits one luminous Dutch canvas by Pieter de Hooch stolen in Paris from Edouard de Rothschild and seized by Hitler's boundlessly rapacious second in command, Hermann Goering. But greed alone hardly explains the Nazis' frenzied grasp for Jewish-owned art, says curator Steinberg: "Taking an art collection was a way of stripping the Jew of what made him a citizen in the world." Out of gratitude for French help in restoring their stolen art, the Rothschilds donated the de Hooch painting to the Louvre in 1974, and gave the Israel Museum several family...
...Steinberg believes that Bush will be pressed to find ways to repair the damage. "Beyond statements of continued concern about the dangers that will be created if the radical Iranian regime acquires nuclear weapons, the U.S. Administration will be asked to consider measures that will revive the stalled sanctions regime, and to consider the possibility of military action, if all other means have been exhausted...