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...This is a magazine that makes very few gestures to the cultural habits of our time," says Martin H. Peretz, who is both the magazine's chair and a lecturer in social studies at Harvard. "There are no pull quotes or lavish illustrations. The articles tend to be long and exacting...
Yale, Princeton and the University of Chicago are currently considering Holocaust studies professorships, according to Martin H. Peretz, a lecturer in social studies. While no particular scholar may have been available at the time of the bequest, that is no reason for the University to convince the donor to reallocate the money...
...disbanding of the committee is actuallylong overdue because the committee seemed to beembarked on trying to fill one or another otherpositions but not a position in Holocauststudies," said Peretz...
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...