Language:
English
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
American Jewish Archives
Angaben zur Quelle:
45,2 (1993) 125-145
Keywords:
Columbia University
;
Brown University
;
Jews Education
;
Antisemitism History 1500-
Abstract:
The period after the Civil War in the USA witnessed a flourishing of students' fraternities in the universities. However, Jewish students, from the very beginning, felt discrimination on this issue: they either were not permitted to join the fraternities or, when they began to set up strictly Jewish fraternities, they encountered negative attitudes toward them both from the universities' authorities and from the non-Jewish students. Two such cases are described, relating events from the end of the 19th century to the 1930s: the first, at Columbia University where the undergraduate yearbook "Columbia" staunchly refused to include Jewish societies on campus in its pages; the second, at Brown University, whose president did not permit the establishment of any Jewish fraternities. In both cases, Jewish student leaders complained to the American Jewish Committee; in the case of Brown University, Louis Marshall intervened on behalf of the recognition of Jewish fraternities.
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