Elie Borowski Seeks a Home for His Collection

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Eliechish, his brothers called him. Elie the dreamer. He does not deny it; he is a dreamer. Today he is 71 years old and still dreaming. One of Elie Borowski’s dreams is 20 years old. Whether it will ever be realized is still an open question. He tries to suppress his anger and frustration, but it spills out all over. “Please, Elie, don’t say it,” his wife pleads. He cannot be stopped; he is a compulsive talker anyway. He has given so much; why shouldn’t others be willing to do even a tiny fraction of what he has done? […]

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Footnotes

See Lawrence E. Stager and Samuel R. Wolff, “Child Sacrifice at Carthage—Religious Rite or Population Control?” BAR 10:01.

The Hildesheimer Seminary was named after its founder, Azriel Hildesheimer (1820–1899), a Jewish scholar who founded the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary in 1873 to promote neo-Orthodoxy and to counter the growing influence of Reform Judaism.

Also known as the Hochschule fur die Wissenschaft des Judentum.

An alternative site is also being considered by the Borowskis.