Gatecrashers: Hidden History of Jews in the Ivy League -- limited episode podcast

So far four out of the eight (one for each Ivy League college) have been released, and I’m finding it fascinating! Mark Oppenheimer, producer, journalist, and host of the podcast is an amazing interviewer. He used to write the Beliefs colum in the New York Times.

Podcast uncovers such tidbits as:
-The separate college for Jews that Columbia opened in Brooklyn.
-How most of what we take for granted in college admissions today (geographic diversity, holistic admissions, interviews) was devised to keep Jews out.
-The quotas, the firing of a Columbia admissions officer for admitting too many Jews, and of course the no-Jews-allowed fraternities and eating clubs.
-Why Ivy Leagues got rid of Jewish quotas after Sputnik.
-Why the percentage of Jews has recently gone down compared with the late '70s, the 80s, and the '90s.

Highly recommend!

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I’m hooked on this podcast, too. I still can’t get over Columbia and the Seth Low Jr College fiasco. The Dartmouth episode wasn’t what I expected, what delightful alums. Can’t wait to listen to the rest of the series.

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