June 16, 2000
Columbia U. Hires Young Scholar Rather Than Top Professor Who Advised Him; Expert on Gender and Law Moves to Harvard From Stanford; Harvard Restarts Search for Nieman Foundation Head
By SCOTT HELLER, KATHERINE S. MANGAN, and ROBIN WILSONYiddish studies is such a tiny field that scholars are bound to compete with one another for the same job openings. But when Columbia University conducted a search for a Yiddish specialist in its Germanic-languages department, a rare thing happened: An eminent senior professor and a recent graduate student of his were both finalists for the post.
The student, 27-year-old Jeremy Dauber, got the job. But his
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