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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Nov 2020

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      1. This letter of recommendation to Harvard in 1936 seems strange to our eyes but it follows a common form of that time used for Jewish students -- assuring the school that the applicant is the right type of Jew ("one of the outstanding products of that Race.") https://twitter.com/abrahamjoseph/status/1331275274596519945 …

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Nov 2020

      2. Peter Novick, in his truly magisterial history of American historical profession "That Noble Dream," quotes many such letters. The subtext is usually: "yes, he's a Jew but one of the good ones."pic.twitter.com/ReKmjgdfne

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Nov 2020

          3. In a fine footnote (always read his footnotes!) Novick rightly notes the moral ambiguity of these letters. The writers wanted to help the Jewish applicants get into programs so had to address anti-Semitic concerns, but in do so replicated anti-Semitism.pic.twitter.com/SQ4nKG9eJG

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Nov 2020

          4. I don't think you can understand mid- 20th century academia without understanding it was super-WASP and very carefully exercising a gatekeeping role about admitting in people who were marginally white. Some more examples.pic.twitter.com/Lt5J0Q7Omi

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Nov 2020

          5. Anyways, the letters of recommendation from the past are very eye-opening about the actual social systems and biases that shaped hiring & the gatekeeping around ethnicity. Would be curious to know if letters of current era reveal the same.

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Nov 2020

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Abraham Riesman אברהם ריסמן

          6. Appending this here because original tweet (with screenshot) has been deleted:https://twitter.com/abrahamjoseph/status/1331271124278267907 …

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          Abraham Riesman אברהם ריסמןVerified account @abrahamjoseph
          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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        1. Rob Salkowitz‏ @robsalk 24 Nov 2020
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          This reminds me of Himmler's speech about how every German knows his "one splendid Jew - the rest are swine, but this one is good." I think the term "damning with faint praise" applies here.

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        1. Miss you Rufus‏ @mattdfreund 24 Nov 2020
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          That’s a book I haven’t seen mentioned for quite some time. He was an interesting cat.

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        1. Dr. Neal Rosendorf‏ @NealRosendorf 24 Nov 2020
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          I remember reading Novick’s then-new That Noble Dream in my Ph.D. seminar and thereafter viewing the somewhat forbidding Dr. Handlin with a goodly dose of rachmones over Harvard’s WASP antisemiten whenever I encountered him in Robinson Hall. (To be sure, he still intimidated me.)

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