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November 9, 2018       Share:    

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/americas-long-history-anti-semitism/574234/

Anti-Semitism in the U.S. Is Nothing New

(Atlantic) Julian Zelizer - in the 1930s and '40s, Jews confronted tight restrictions that kept them out of law firms, medical professions, universities and colleges, fraternities, hotels, country clubs, and more. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton imposed strict quotas on how many Jews they would admit. Jews were subject to restrictive real-estate covenants that prevented "Hebrews" from living in particular neighborhoods. Conditions improved after World War II. The horror of the Holocaust made overtly anti-Semitic ideas unacceptable in mainstream U.S. society. The number of Americans who heard "criticism or talk against Jews," according to historian Leonard Dinnerstein, declined from 64% in 1946 to 12% in 1959.

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