The friendly university: Jews in academia since World War II.

Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought | June 22, 1997| | Copyright

In the movie Pete and Tillie, the character played by Walter Matthau was asked why, since he was three-quarters Lutheran and only one-quarter Jewish, he insisted on calling himself Jewish. "I'm a social climber," he replied. The rapid economic and social mobility of Jews since World War II has presented a challenge to both scholars and laymen alike in understanding recent American Jewish history, wedded as many of them have been to interpretations of Jewish history emphasizing anti-Semitism and victimhood. What Salo Baron termed the "lachrymose" paradigm of Jewish history still ...

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