I obtained my late grandfather's college records and one of his admission recommendations came from a Gentile friend of the family who said, "He has little or none of the appearance of being a Jew" and that he is "one of the outstanding products of that Race" — philosemitism FTW!
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My favorite is when they felt it necessary to note that Wallace Notestein was an upstanding member of the Dutch Reformed Church.
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Yeah, Novick talks about that -- people with Jewish names who it was necessary to make clear in letters were not Jewish.
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