Join us for the Bentley Historical Library’s series of talks exploring the history of the University of Michigan.
Admissions Quotas and President C.C. Little:
Jewish Inclusion and Exclusion at U-M in the 1920s
November 14, 2024; 7:00 PM EST
Attend in-person at the Detroit Observatory in Ann Arbor
OR online
When new University of Michigan president C.C. Little arrived in Ann Arbor in 1925, American universities were in the midst of a transition, revamping their admission systems to limit the number of Jewish students on their campuses.
Join us to hear Professor Karla Goldman discuss the status of Jewish students at Michigan during this period and how President Little, well known as a eugenicist, actually resisted some of the racist and antisemitic assumptions of his time. His tenure illustrates the long and complicated history of inclusion and exclusion at U-M and in American higher education.
Karla Goldman is the Sol Drachler Professor of Social Work and Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan where she also directs the Jewish Communal Leadership Program.
Her research focuses on the history of American Jewish experience with special attention to history of varied Jewish communities and the evolving roles and identities of American Jewish women.
She previously taught at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati and served as historian in residence at the Jewish Women’s Archive in Boston.
She is the author of Beyond the Synagogue Gallery: Finding a Place for Women in American Judaism (Harvard University Press, 2000).
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