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Other corrections in the history of the Museum are in order, but let me mention merely one. Peretz states that President Lowell's hostility to the Museum, prompted he implies by his "hostility to almost anything that smacked of Jews," caused him to prohibit the curator of the Museum in 1926 from raising any funds for the museum at all. I think Lowell's anti-Semitism is well documented. But in fact he did not forbid the curator from raising funds in 1926. Rather, he crossed out certain names on a list of names submitted by the curator for approach...
...must interpose a remark about the problem of funding the Museum. In my thirty-five years at Harvard, no president has allowed the Harvard Semitic Museum to participate in a major capital drive of the University. This should be Peretz' complaint...
...However, Peretz' account of the sins of Lowell in forbidding money raising by the Museum is meant to be placed in parallel with the alleged behavior of Lawrence Stager in forbidding Carney Gavin from raising money for the Museum. This parallelism suggests to an literate reader that Stager, like Lowell was moved by anti-Semitic impulses. This is libel. I am told that Peretz has denied that he meant to brand Stager an anti-Semite--a charge which if believed could end Stager's career as archaeologist in Israel. I must confess that I regard his demurral, if correctly reported...
...University. In his early years he was a beloved protege of Benjamin Mazar, the doyen of Israeli archaeologists. Stager was awarded one of he largest and richest of the pristine archaeological sites left in Israel by the Israeli Council on Archaeology. To pair Stager with Lowell is unconscionable, and Peretz should publicly apologize, or in any case repudiate the anti-Semitic interpretation generally and most plausibly given to his remarks...
...Museum goals were to be redefined in order to focus them on the museum's central tasks in the University, attempts to raise funds should not be sought primarily or wholly for peripheral projects, binding the Museum to continue its lop-sided program indefinitely into the future. Peretz' claim that Stager unilaterally barred all fund raising (in his claimed parallel with Lowell) is untrue...