Word: schiff
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...less than the definition of a field. God bless the Philistines interred at Ashkelon, and God bless those who have exhumed their remains. But Semitic scholarship is no longer riveted simply on monuments and shards. Semitic cultures and civilizations survive and flourish in our time. President Eliot and Jacob Schiff understood that this would be so, and the men and women who reopened the Semitic Museum in 1982 understood this, too. Over the last decade the Museum has exemplified the extension of the field from an exclusive concentration on the Semites of antiquity to an inclusive vision of Semites throughout...
...traditional center of the Museum's activity, exploration and excavation of sites of the ancient New East expanded as the Museum became the sponsor of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon ion 1987. This continued the enterprise of the early days, the excavations at Samaria, funded by Jacob Schiff, the benefactor who provided funds for the building of the Semitic Museum, and the excavations at Nuzi (with the Fogg Museum), and later (with the Museum underground) at Shechem, Idalion in Cyprus, Carthage in Tunisia, Numeirah in Jordan, and (underwater) at Tharros in Sardinia. Stager heads the current, primary enterprise...
Begun with a contribution from the great philanthropist and financier Jacob Schiff in 1889, Harvard's Semitic Museum enjoyed the support of Schiff and others, including President Eliot. But with Eliot's retirement in 1909 and his death 17 years later, the museum was in for rougher times. As Harvard Magazine delicately put it, President Lowell was "unaccountably hostile" to it--so hostile, in fact, that in 1926 he prohibited the curator from raising any funds for the museum at all. (The Harvard president who initiated the numerus clausus for Jewish students, Lowell was also unaccountably hostile to the appointment...
...both Harvard teaching hospitals, very committed to the teaching ofstudents," Schiff said. "We share patients andteaching programs; we share doctor referrals withBrigham...
...from stealing the Brigham's starphysicians, Schiff said Massachusetts General was"looking to work even closer in patient care,research, and teaching" with the Brigham...