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...search for a Holocaust studies chair has ended. After consulting with the search committee, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and the potential donors, the Kenneth and Evelyn Lipper Foundation, announced this week they have agreed to reallocate the already donated portion of the money intended to endow a Helen Zelaznik Professorship for Holocaust and Cognate Studies to the Lipper Center for Computational Genetics at the Harvard Medical School...
...delighted to see the Lipper's funds being put to such immediate good use in the Medical School," said Knowles, yet his enthusiasm belies the disappointing result of this donation: Harvard surrendered its chance to become a leader in Holocaust research after a disappointingly meager and questionable search in this vital area. With a greater effort, Harvard easily could have found someone for this important position...
Still, some said the failure to fill the chairis a missed opportunity to solidify Harvard'sposition at the forefront of Holocaustscholarship. Peretz predicted that Harvard willeventually establish a Holocaust chair...
...think that since there are Holocaust chairsnow being discussed at other very distinguisheduniversities like, for example, Yale, Princetonand the university of Chicago, Harvard will sooneror later have a Holocaust chair," said Peretz...
...Rome the statement's authors explained that they wrote for a church whose large non-European realms should not have to shoulder too much Holocaust guilt. They believe We Remember's good bold strokes will be remembered long after its disputed details. Even the report's critics obviously wanted to like it. American Jewish Congress official Phil Baum, who released a statement predicting that the historical record will eventually show a "deliberate failure of the church generally to respond" to the Shoah, adds on the phone, "We are not disparaging of the Pope's efforts to live with this responsibility...