Brandeis University filled what is believed to be the first endowed chair of Israel studies in the United States. Ilan Troen, who has written a history of Jewish settlement in Israel and a book on contemporary European Jewry, was named recently to the Karl, Harry and Helen Stoll Chair in Israel Studies at the Waltham, Mass.-based school.
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