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...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...
...shoddy process by which the University searched for a scholar to fill the proposed chair. According to Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies Charles S. Maier, the committee chair, some members of the search committee, though qualified scholars in the field, objected to the idea of a professorship solely devoted to the Holocaust and its causes...
...University had questions about the legitimacy of a professorship in Holocaust studies, these issues should have been resolved before a committee began a search for someone to fill the position. It is no surprise that the committee could not agree on a candidate given the dissension in its ranks over the position's validity. Conducting a half-hearted search and then turning over the money to a program at the medical school, however meritable, displays a insensitivity on the part of the University to what is a burgeoning and controversial area of study...
...Zelaznik Professorship would have been one of the first Holocaust chairs in the United States...
Instead, the committee proposed appointingFriedlander, who is nearing retirement age, to aguest professorship while the committee continuedits search...