"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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