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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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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6. Appending this here because original tweet (with screenshot) has been deleted:https://twitter.com/abrahamjoseph/status/1331271124278267907 …
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I knew a man whose daughter won a lawsuit against Radcliffe (before Harvard admitted women) in the sixties, because they told her in a written rejection letter that she was good enough to get in but they had used up their Jewish quota already.
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or, quoting myself from my Harper’s WASPs articlepic.twitter.com/IkPof2m86g
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My grandparents immigrated from the Ukraine in the 1890s and her siblings claimed they missed out on scholarships and awards in the 30s and 40s. This would have been in Manitoba.
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