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After several years of searching for a scholar to fill a tenured Holocaust studies chair, Harvard has disbanded its search committee and announced that it is presently unable to appoint a scholar to the position...
...chair, named the Helen Zelaznik Professorship for Holocaust and Cognate Studies, was to have been endowed by a gift of more than $3 million from the Kenneth and Evelyn Lipper Foundation...
President Clinton was so moved by his meeting with survivors of the Rwandan genocide, and his belief that the West had failed to stop the killing, that he was tempted to invoke the ?Never again? mantra that followed the Holocaust. ?But his National Security staff insisted that he hedge any pledge to stop future genocides since it was not a mission that the U.S. military was prepared to take on,? says TIME Managing Editor Walter Isaacson, traveling with the President. ?So, even though he gave a moving speech in Rwanda about the need to stop future genocides, there...
According to Zakim, history is only valuable ifcitizens learn from past mistakes and work tocombat racism and anti-Semitism today. Judaism isa faith based on deeds, not words, he said, andthe best measure of the legacy of the Holocaust iswhat the younger generation does to combat racism...
...illustrate the current state of Holocaustawareness, Daniel Mirsky, a 1997 Wesleyan graduatewho had studied the Holocaust with Strom, relatedan incident he witnessed recently. Passing the NewEngland Holocaust Memorial, he noticed someone hadtaken the time to systematically spit on each ofthe plates where names and quotations wereinscribed. Mirsky said it stood as a reminder tothe state of society today...