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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Nazi Sympathizers Ran American Universities

"American Jews remember the Ivy League colleges of the 1930s as being places where Jews were not especially welcome. Quotas on Jewish students — the infamous numerus clausus imported from Europe — were, very literally, the order of the day. The question of quotas in higher education was, and remains, a difficult and controversial matter. On the one hand, a generation and more of American Jews were denied access to the Ivies; on the other hand, as my mother (herself a victim of antisemitism and gender discrimination in the university world) would say: “Jews can’t get into Yale? That’s terrible. But quotas are not expulsion. Quotas are not murder.”

Now we may know why Jews and the Ivy League didn't mix.

A book review, “The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower” is described as being "nothing less than a litany of outrages, but were it just that, the book would be viewed, legitimately, as a hysterical screed."

Was this man an Ivy Leaguer?

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