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$10,000 to make the work of duplicating the negatives, printing positives, and
establishing an inventory of the material possible. 304
By early May, with the agreement of HUC-JIR Cincinnati librarian, Herbert
Zafren, the assistant to the president in New York, Fritz Bamberger, and the
chair of the board of governors, S.L. Kopald Jr., the agreement was ratified. 305
Glueck made clear to Harman that it would take some time before the funds
could be secured. Glueck sent a letter asking board member Philip D. Sang for
the funds in late April. 306 The two met at Chicago’s Standard Club during the
week of 14 May and Sang, who, between at least 1966 and 1970, chaired HUC-
JIR’s committee on library and archives, 307 agreed to provide the $10,000. 308
Glueck immediately reported the news to Harman. 309
Glueck’s approach to Sang is particularly important in understanding
the significance of this activity for Glueck and HUC-JIR. In describing the
opportunity, Glueck called it “a great coup for our Hebrew Union College.” 310
However, asking Sang for the money was an act of double-dipping, which
may have proved damaging. Simultaneous to this request, the College was
conducting a capital campaign for a new building on the Jerusalem campus.
To that point, only $250,000 of the $400,000 budgeted for the project had
been raised, and construction had already begun. Glueck approached Sang for
$50,000 on top of the funds for the scrolls, which he did not receive. 311 Glueck’s
motivation for acquiring the negatives and prints was quite clear—the $10,000
would provide the College “with the privilege of showing the prints at our various
schools before anybody else is permitted to.” 312 But that was certainly not
Glueck’s only motivation. His enthusiasm stemmed at least in part from the
scrolls being a great archaeological discovery. On top of acquiring the security
copy of the scrolls, Glueck also purchased a large ceramic jar and lid from the
site of Qumran. 313 As well, the $10,000 for Harman may have been a quid pro
quo. Glueck needed residence rooms in the dormitory at Hebrew University
for HUC-JIR students studying in Jerusalem, primarily through an American
Friends of the Hebrew University program, and Harman needed the funds for
the scrolls. 314 More than that, though, was likely Glueck’s first-hand knowledge
that the scrolls could never be entirely secure while they were in Jerusalem. A
security copy was a necessity, as Glueck had seen when he was in Israel immediately
following the Six Day War in 1967. Glueck had toured the Rockefeller
Museum (formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum), where the scrolls
had been stored, studied, and exhibited when the Jordanians had controlled
East Jerusalem. It was Glueck’s first access to the Museum since 1947, and the
destruction from the days of warring in the previous weeks made a significant
impression on him:
Later on in the afternoon, when we got back to Jerusalem, Moshe Dothan
and Levi Yitzhak Rachmani of the Israel Archaeological Museum took us
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