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Jewish students celebrating Passover Seder in 1942.

The Boundaries of Pluralism: The World of the University of Michigan’s Jewish Students from 1897 – 1945 with Andrei Markovits and Kenneth Garner

Event Details

date and Time

Thursday, September 24, 2020, 7:00pm – 8:30pm

Event Type

In-person

Location

Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory 1398 E. Ann Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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.