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A brief history of antisemitism in U.S. higher education

What one wave of it a century ago created

The first Jew to be hired as an instructor at a U.S. college was Judah Monis. He had earned a Master of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1720 — the only Jew to receive a college degree in America before 1800 — and then was given a job two years later by Harvard to teach Hebrew, but on one condition: that he convert to Christianity.

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