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Part One: The Man Who Ruined New York

Behind the Bastards

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Jewish Problems at Yale University

Jewish enrolment was held to about ten per cent for four decades. One document, a folder now in the uni sity archives, labelled jewish problems,. contains a memo from the admission chairman of 19 22 urging limits on the alien and unwashed element. The next year, the admission commission enacted the limitation of numbers policy, an informal quota. He's able to exist in the rarefied levels of white christian society, but he's also permanently othered from it, right? He's not fully accepted in it either. Thare's an interesting way to grow up. And you might think, because he couldn't not be aware of the injustices of the era

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