The Legacy of Anti-Semitism

To the Editor:

James O. Freedman provides valuable insight into the mind of a university president confronting moral issues, in this case the 20th-century history of discrimination against Jews and other groups in higher education ("Ghosts of the Past: Anti-Semitism at Elite Colleges," The Review, December 1).

The article quotes my book Joining the Club: A History of Jews and Yale, recording the Harvard dean Henry Rosovsky's explanation of one aspect of his reasoning in

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