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...construction is his. But, for the record, let me state the obvious and the superfluous: the present controversy over the Semitic Museum has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. When I wrote to the Crimson late last month I actually had some vague impression--erroneous, it seems--that the Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel is Jewish. Since the question of whether he is or is not Jewish was, however, of no moment I never asked. What I did know is that Stager had studied at the Hebrew University and that he had been favored in the assignment...
Yesterday, the museum began a new search for an assistant director and an assistant curator. "There is nothing that precludes them from applying for these jobs," said the museum's director Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel Lawrence E. Stager...
Rudenstine defended the role of the museum's director, Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel Lawrence E. Stager '65, in chairing the faculty committee that recommended the restructuring...
...founded, for the exploration of the ancient Near East, and for the academic training of a new generation of archaeologists in the field, as well as for its public exhibits of artifacts won in the field work of the museum. Indeed in the raising of the endowment for the Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel, one of the chief arguments made to the donor was the desperate need for a distinguished archaeologist to give leadership to the Semitic Museum...
...claim of Peretz [surely not on the basis of his own knowledge] that Stager is an extraordinarily narrow specialist can be answered easily by drawing on the dossier collected to present to the President's ad hoc committee appointed to review his appointment to the Dorot Chair. A leitmotif in the recommendations of senior scholars from many nations, including Israel's most distinguished archaeologists, was the extraordinary breadth of Stager's scholarship both in his field and in adjacent fields including anthropology [Stager is a member of Harvard's department of Anthropology], historiography, and historiographic theory, ancient Near Eastern...