An Israeli scholar and Holocaust survivor was named the new rector and president of a university in Budapest established to enable post-Communist countries to study disciplines denied to them under communism. Yehudah Elkana, who was named to head Central European University, was born in Yugoslavia and has also held academic posts in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland and Hungary. The foundation headed by philanthropist George Soros established the university in 1991.
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