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The Boundaries of Pluralism: The World of the University of Michigan’s Jewish Students from 1897 to 1945

Andrei S. Markovits and Kenneth Garner
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"This is a highly original and intriguing book which should attract a good deal of interest. It is based on exhaustive, quite remarkable archival research and includes a sophisticated prosopographical analysis of Jewish enrollment over several decades. Most intriguing, the book unearths hitherto unknown information about the growing influence on University policy of the famously anti-Semitic Henry Ford and figures in Ford’s orbit. Despite the contentious nature of their research topic, the authors maintain a consistently detached, non-judgmental, yet intellectually incisive perspective. The result is an entirely credible, well written, often quite exciting chronicle of a minority, most of whose families had been in America for only one or two generations, striving to define themselves, and the response of the Gentile community to those aspirations. Given the centrality of immigration politics in the US and Europe at the present moment, this story has wide contemporary relevance."

  • Victor Lieberman, Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished University Professor of History,University of Michigan

"This is a deeply researched and strikingly original study of Jewish students at an important place in an important time. Its focus on both the lives of the students and their institutional situation yields deep insight and new, subtle understandings of the complicated interactions of Jewish identity and antisemitism in a state which, in those years, was the virtual capital of the latter and at a university which struggled with both. Required reading for anyone interested in this topic."

  • Terrence J. McDonald, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan, and Director, Bentley Historical Library
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Prefaces
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Instituting Jewish Life at the University of Michigan, from the Late Nineteenth Century until 1923
  • Chapter Two. Integrating Jewish Students at Michigan, 1910–30
  • Chapter Three. Alexander Ruthven and His Pluralist Vision
  • Chapter Four. The Paradoxes of Pluralism, 1931–35
  • Chapter Five. Ambiguities and Anxieties, 1935–38
  • Chapter Six. The Rightward Drift, 1938–40
  • Chapter Seven. The Limits of Pluralism, 1940–41
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1. Jewish Student Organizations on the Michigan Campus Before 1945
  • Appendix 2. Afterlives
  • Footnotes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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Published: 2020
Publisher: Maize Books
ISBN(s)
  • 978-1-60785-553-8 (ebook)
  • 978-1-60785-552-1 (paper)
  • 978-1-60785-575-0 (open access)
Subject
  • HISTORY / Jewish
  • EDUCATION / Higher
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