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Although rarely an overt policy, anti-Semitism in higher education was still common in the 1930s. Academically gifted Jewish students were routinely denied admission to many universities, especially those in the Ivy League. Many schools maintained geographic quotas, admitting a set number of students from each region of the nation. Since most Jewish students lived in the Northeast, geographic quotas had the effect of preventing the enrollment of gifted Jewish students while admitting less talented non-Jews from other parts of the country.
Jews were also routinely denied faculty appointments because of their cultural origins, especially in departments of religion, English, and German. In his 1987 memoir Jewish philosophy professor Sidney Hook explained the practice:
The departments of English were almost everywhere the most intractable and usually the last to come around. It was taken for granted by those who administered the department . . . that the purity of...
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