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Joining the club : a history of Jews and Yale

Title: Joining the club : a history of Jews and Yale / Dan A. Oren.
Author: Oren, Dan A., 1958-
Publication: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1985.

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Additional Authors

American Jewish Archives.

Description

xiv, 440 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Traces the history of Jews at Yale University from the 18th century to 1977, on the basis of archival records and interviews. The increase in social prejudice against Jews in the 1870s was also felt at Yale, especially as the Jews' intellectual achievements and academic preoccupations clashed with the Yale emphasis on social life and sports. Admissions procedures were liberalized during 1910-20, but in 1923 an unofficial quota was imposed which lasted until the 1940s. Includes statistical tables on enrollment of Jews.

Series Statement

The Yale scene. University series ; 4

Uniform Title

Yale scene. University series ; 4.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Published in cooperation with the American Jewish Archives.
Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 397-423.

Contents

1701-1878 -- The Beginnings -- 1878-1941 -- Increasing Biases: Undergraduate Life until the First World War -- The Limitation of Numbers: Undergraduate Admissions between the World Wars -- Mixed Messages: Undergraduate Life between the World Wars -- Religious Spirit -- The Faculty -- The School of Medicine -- 1941-1980 -- Evolving Meritocracy: Undergraduate Life after the Second World War -- Undergraduate Admissions -- Hillel -- A Kosher Whiffenpoof: The Religiously Observant Student -- Finding the Best Doctors -- Breaking the Barriers: The Faculty, Corporation, and Administration -- The Club -- Coda -- 1980 and Beyond -- The Yale Seal -- Connecticut and United States Populations -- "Church Members" at Yale College, 1873-1904 -- Sheffield Scientific School Enrollment, 1873-1921 -- Enrollment at Yale College (and Sheffield Scientific School, Where Indicated), 1902-1969 -- Background of Jewish Students, Yale College Classes of 1911-1926 -- Enrollment in the Yale Graduate and Professional Schools -- Full Professors on the Yale Faculties, 1900-1970 -- A Chronology of Judaic Studies at Yale.

ISBN

0300033303
9780300033304
0300043848
9780300043846

LCCN

85014252

OCLC

ocm12238434
12238434
SCSB-8925457

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library