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From left: Georgetown University President Timothy S. Healy, S. J., Israeli Ambassador Meir Rosenne, Israeli
Professor Haggai Erlich, and Professor Jan Karski with the 19th-century Torah presented to the university at
the Embassy of Israel.
Torah that survived Holocaust
given to Georgetown University
WASHINGTON, D C.—A 19th-
century Czechoslovakian Torah,
saved from destruction during the
Holocaust, was recently presented
to Georgetown University during a
ceremony at the Embassy of Israel.
The presentation was made in honor
of Georgetown’s professor emeritus
of government, Jan Karski. An
underground courier for the exiled
Polish government during World
War II, Karski played a vital role
in alerting world leaders to the
impending annihilation of the Jews.
“This Torah, rescued from the
ashes of the Holocaust, has now
been deposited in my home, George
tte
town University,” Karski told the
120 guests at the embassy. “The
Holocaust, as we know, was unique,
incomparable. Humanity wants to
forget it. But remembering the
Holocaust might teach humanity
where intolerance, anti-Semitism,
racism and hatred lead, and what
observance of the commandment
‘Love Thy Neighbor’ can do,” Karski
said.
The Torah is one .of five that
originally came from the town of
Litomysl, located approximately
100 miles east of Prague. During
the Nazi occupation, items of value
were removed from the Litomysl
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Synagogue, catalogued, and sent
to Prague. The Torahs, however,
were abandoned, arid eventually
acquired by the Memorial Scrolls
T rust of the Westminster Synagogue
in London.
During the ceremony, Israeli
Ambassador Meir Rosenne said,
“This Torah is a symbol of Jewish
continuity, of our Jewish heritage.”
The reception was hosted by the
Embassy of Israel in honor of
Georgetown’s visiting Israeli Profes
sor, Haggai Erlich Georgetown,
the oldest Catholic university* in
the United States, has invited a
distinguished Israeli scholar to join
its faculty each year since 1979 as
part of its Judaic/ Hebraic Studies
program.
“As a Jew and as an Israeli, I
enjoy the combination of George
town’s Christian background with
its emphasized air of pluralism,”
said Erlich.
Georgetown University President
Timothy S. Healy, S.J., provided
the guests with an overview of the
university’s Judaic/ Hebraic studies
program, which includes a Jewish
chaplaincy, a faculty endowment
for Jewish scholars, a chair in
Jewish ethics and a chair in the
Judaic roots of American law, a
study abroad program, and the
visiting Israeli professorship.
In 1967 Georgetown introduced
Jewish studies courses in the theology
department and hired a rabbi on a
part-time basis. Today, Judaic/
Hebraic studies includes courses in
the social sciences, theology, language
and literature. A full-time rabbi
has been part of the campus ministry
staff since 1976.
Founded in 1789, Georgetown
has nearly 12,000 students from 50
states and 114 countries enrolled in
its 10 schools.
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