A man who pledged $3 million to Harvard University for a chairmanship in Holocaust studies transferred half of his money to the university’s medical school because of a disagreement over how the subject should be taught, according to a news report. Kenneth Lipper reportedly wanted the controversial scholar Daniel Goldhagen to fill the post. But some members of the search committee believed that hiring Goldhagen would lead to an overemphasis on studying the perpetrators of Nazism at the expense of their victims and Jewish culture.
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