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Stanley Slotkin, was a prominent Los Angeles businessman and founder of Abbey Rents, a national party rental and medical supply rental company. Slotkin was also a philanthropist who donated his time, money and a variety of historical relics to worthy causes throughout his lifetime.

A lifelong interest for Slotkin was helping people with physical difficulties get more out of life. One way he did hat was by opening a clinic that provided plastic surgery—free of charge—to people who could not otherwise afford the corrective surgeries necessary to repair physical deformities like cleft palates and harelips. With Slotkin’s financial backing, the clinic was able to perform tens of thousands of these operations. Slotkin also helped to start Epihab, a job-skills training project for people with epilepsy. Founded in the late 1950s, Epihab trained epileptics in a variety of skilled and semi-skilled jobs and helped them find positions to utilize their new skills.

Another avid interest of Slotkin’s was antique books and archaeology. Over the years, Slotkin collected a number of relics that he gave to numerous universities and museums. One such example is that of an ancient antiphonary or choir book thought to be used in the Cathedral of Deville in about 1500. Slotkin presented sheets from this book to Marquette University, the Milwaukee Public Museum, the St. Louis City Art Museum, St. Louis University and St. Louis Cathedral.

In 1963, Slotkin bough the Charles Darwin Family Library in London and donated all the papers and artifacts from the collection to the University of Southern California. It was through reading Darwin’s works that Slotkin developed his interest in biblical archaeology. In Darwin’s papers, Slotkin found a story about the Tomb of Joseph in Nazareth that sparked his curiosity. The search for this tomb led Slotkin to the Cave of the Nativity, the site that Christians have recognized as the birthplace of Christ since A.D. 325, and eventually to the Nativity Stones. During 1964, Slotkin visited the Cave of the Nativity as a guest of Elias B. Bandak, Mayor of Bethlehem. Slotkin noticed a quantity of stones that were planned to be disposed of due to excavations to the Manger Room of the Cave of the Nativity. Since there were no plans for these stones, Slotkin asked Mayor Bandak to ship the stones to him in the United States so that he could distribute them to museums, churches and individuals who may find comfort or interest from a memento from Christ’s birthplace.

Since having the Nativity Stones shipped to the U.S. in 1964, Slotkin continued his good works. Using a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the Nativity Stones or the stones themselves, Slotkin helped to fund a variety of non-profit organizations. Charities and nonprofits that have benefited from Nativity Stones in recent years include the American Heart Association, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, American Lung Association, American Cancer Society, Loyola Marymount University and the Cave of the Nativity Foundation.

Slotkin passed away in 1997 after a successful business career, which afforded him the opportunity to pursue his philanthropic and archeological endeavors.

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Obituary—LA Times: http://articles.latimes.com/1997/sep/30/news/mn-37823?pg=2 http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19971001&slug=2563559

Philanthropic Work/Charities/Donations: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19591213&id=6ZQLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bVUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4146,2427726 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/02/WBGCLFVNPQ1.DTL&hw=stanford&sn=008&sc=060 http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/specialcollections/letters.htm http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/files/archives/collections/guides/latesthtml/MUM01577.html http://www.library.drexel.edu/archives/collections/mc00035.html http://archives.llu.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/photodb&CISOBOX1=Stanley http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/collections/rare.html http://historyexplorer.americanhistory.si.edu/artifacts/resource.asp?id=2244 http://www.phoenixseminary.edu/Library/Archives/tabid/433/Default.aspx http://www.library.jhu.edu/collections/specialcollections/collections/medmss.html http://www.lanecc.edu/archives/M006StudyGuide.html http://www.hbu.edu/hbu/Framed_Bible_pages_.asp?SnID=2 http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/collections/ethnology/collections/display.php?ID=58848 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/OLD+PAGE+HAS+NEW+MEANING-a0131388752 http://www.asdal.org/minutes/summerswanderings.html

http://archives.llu.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/photodb&CISOBOX1=Stanley 

Misc. Articles about Stanley Slotkin: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19650918&id=WvgSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oPcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7243,4649761 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2007/10/paul-v-coates-6.html http://books.google.com/books?id=tiGV42rkKQIC&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=stanley+slotkin&source=bl&ots=ARvldoMN4_&sig=3JUWQhQRCtkvzpPjX2FeVFhd8Y8&hl=en&ei=NQTaSrL5J4LYsQP_m-mxCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAwQ6AEwADgy#v=onepage&q=stanley%20slotkin&f=false (Reference in a book)