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- Title
Antisemitism, the Harvard Plan, and Roots of Reverse Discrimination.
- Authors
Pollak, Oliver B.
- Abstract
The article discusses the hypocritical plan to eliminate anti-Jewish discrimination at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At the end of Harvard president Charles Eliot's term in 1908, the Jewish enrollment had been six percent. It was then feared that the uncontrolled enrollment at Harvard would increase the Jewish presence to 40 percent. Committees were then formed to help answer the problems. The mediation of antisemitism was also processed through extralegal, informal, and private administrative means, rather than by a recourse to the courts. Despite concerns to eliminate anti-Jewish discrimination, intuition suggests that the Harvard plan was just masks of discrimination.
- Subjects
CAMBRIDGE (Mass.); MASSACHUSETTS; DISCRIMINATION in higher education; ANTISEMITISM in education; JEWISH college students; COLLEGE attendance; UNIVERSITY &; college admission; ELIOT, Charles; HARVARD University
- Publication
Jewish Social Studies, 1983, Vol 45, Issue 2, p113
- ISSN
0021-6704
- Publication type
Article