If you live, work, or will be visiting Southeast Michigan, Northwest Ohio,
or Southwestern Ontario, please join us at the University of Michigan
Hatcher Graduate Library Thursday, February 2, 2017, 4:00-5:30 for a
lecture related to UM's Bicentennial followed by a kosher reception and
opportunity to see a related exhibition at the Library. Details below.
Elliot H. Gertel
Irving M. Hermelin Curator of Judaica
Curator, Jewish Heritage Collection
The University of Michigan
Area Programs
111-C Hatcher Graduate Library North
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1190
Phone: 734-936-2367
eger...@umich.edu
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*“But Not the Loud Offensive Type:” Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the
University of Michigan during the Era of Jewish Admissions Quotas,
1925-1939.*
*Lecture will take place Thursday, February 2, 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Hatcher *
*Graduate Library *
*Gallery (Room 100 Hatcher North), 913 South University Avenue, Ann Arbor,
Michigan*
You are cordially invited to attend: *Karla Goldman,* Sol Drachler
Professor of Social Work and professor of Judaic studies at U-M, will speak
about “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Michigan
during the Era of Jewish Admissions Quotas, 1925-1939.” Kosher reception
to follow.
Professor Karla Goldman
https://www.lib.umich.edu/events/not-loud-offensive-type
<http://www.lib.umich.edu/events/not-loud-offensive-type>
Beginning in the 1920s, as Northeastern elite private universities began
imposing quotas on the percentage of Jewish students on campus, the
University of Michigan became an attractive destination for children of
East Coast immigrant families. The University has long pointed to the
presence of Jewish students during this period as evidence of its historic
commitment to inclusion and diversity.
Efforts by American universities to limit the number of Jews on campus in
the early and mid-twentieth century contributed significantly to the
shaping of American university admissions policies and education.
Understanding how and whether the University of Michigan participated in
these exclusionary developments is critical to the history of the
University. Professor Goldman will discuss evidence drawn from University
admissions practices and the religious profile of University of Michigan
students in the 1920s and 30s to explore the ways in which the University
both welcomed and limited the presence of Jewish students in this period.
Given the intense focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in this
bicentennial year of the University of Michigan, a better understanding of
the University’s historical approach to inclusion and diversity is
particularly timely.
Professor Goldman’s lecture is free and open to the public and will be
followed by a kosher reception. We suggest that you arrive early and/or
stay late to see the related exhibition, “Striving to Stimulate Serious
Thought: Jewish Scholarly and Cultural Life at Michigan Across Two
Centuries” on display in the Special Collections exhibit space on the
7th floor of the Hatcher Graduate Library South. The exhibit will stay open
late, until 7 pm.
We suggest that you arrive early and/or stay late to see the related
exhibit, *Striving to Stimulate Serious Thought: Jewish Scholarly and
Cultural Life at Michigan Across Two Centuries, *on display in the Special
Collections exhibit space on the 7th floor of the Hatcher Graduate Library
South. The exhibit will stay open late, until 7 p.m.
Regarding the related exhibition:
*Striving to Stimulate Serious Thought: Jewish Scholarly and Cultural Life
at Michigan Across Two Centuries* is an ongoing exhibition curated by
Elliot H. Gertel, the Irving M. Hermelin Curator of Judaica, University
Library, and is open through February 22, 2017.
In 1914, at the Second Convention of the Intercollegiate Menorah
Association in New York City, Isaiah Leo Sharfman, University of Michigan
professor of economics, who was perhaps the very first faculty member at
U-M to take a noticeably active role in Jewish social, cultural, and
academic life at the institution, noted the following as he referenced
speakers at the event on the purpose of the movement:
“Menorah Societies…are organized primarily for study. They aim to inform
their members along the lines of Jewish history and literature and
religion; they strive to stimulate serious thought in the many problems
pressing for solution, which may properly be characterized as Jewish. The
Menorah Movement is first and foremost a cultural movement: the entire
field of Jewish knowledge is its sphere; the deepest and truest
understanding of the Jewish spirit and of the Jewish contribution to the
march of civilization is its goal.” —Isaiah Leo Sharfman from *The
Menorah Movement for the Study and Advancement of Jewish Culture and
Ideals: History, Purposes, Activities,* Ann Arbor, Mich., Intercollegiate
Menorah Association, 1914.
This exhibition chronicles Jewish life and Judaic and Hebraic studies at
the University of Michigan from the early nineteenth century to the first
Hebrew language and Hebrew Bible courses in 1890 to the founding of the
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies in 1988 to the present day. On display
are Hebrew grammars that once belonged to John Monteith, first president of
the University in 1817; pamphlets, periodicals, and programs on early
twentieth century Jewish social life at the University; documents relating
to the inauguration of Judaic studies in 1972 to its evolution into the
Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies in 1988; and a variety of
other objects, correspondence, and photos including letters from US Supreme
Court Justices Louis D. Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter to I. Leo Sharfman.
For more information on the exhibit and related lecture, please go to
https://www.lib.umich.edu/events/striving-to-stimulate-serious-thought and
https://www.lib.umich.edu/events/not-loud-offensive-type or e-mail
eger...@umich.edu or call 734-936-2367 <(734)%20936-2367>.
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