In the first decades of the twentieth century, the University of Michigan prided itself on being more open and welcoming to students, than its elite east coast contemporaries who maintained strict quotas of Jewish students.
Join us to hear from Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies Andrei S. Markovits and Head of Research and Publications for Fakhoury Global Immigration Kenneth Garner discuss how U-m’s commendable pluralism in terms of accepting others, Jews in particular, had its serious limits when it came to Jewish students from the East Coast with leftist political preferences.