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SUMMARY:“We will tolerate no Jews here”: A History of Medical Education Antisemitism in the U.S. and Canada with Dr. Edward Halperin
DESCRIPTION:Reflections on Medicine\, History\, & Society\nwith Dr. Edward 
 Halperin\, New York Medical College\n\nThursday\, November 13\, 
 2025\n2:00–3:30 p.m.\nGordon Hall - Waterhouse Room\,\n25 Shattuck 
 Street\nBoston\, MA 02115\n\nRegistration required to attend in-person or 
 via Zoom.\n\n\nSaul Jarcho\, M.D. (1906-2000) was a respected internist and 
 medical historian. In 1959\, he weighed the historical evidence regarding 
 an alleged antisemitic quota to limit the admission of American and 
 Canadian Jews to medical schools in the first half of the 20th century. He 
 concluded\, “it must be admitted that the evidence of discriminatory 
 admission practice by medical schools [directed against Jews] is not of the 
 precision or concreteness which the historian requires”. This lecture 
 will demonstrate that Dr. Jarcho was wrong. Dr. Halperin will present the 
 evidence for the existence of an antisemitic medical school admissions 
 quota. In an era where approximately 60% of the medical school applicants 
 were Jews\, the quota capped Jewish enrollment at 5% to 20%. Dr. Halperin 
 will describe dramatic episodes such as the 1927 assault on the Jewish 
 interns of Kings County Hospital and the medical interns’ strike in 
 Montreal in 1934 in support of excluding a Jewish doctor from the new 
 interns’ class. After explaining how and why the quota ended in the 
 decades after World War II\, he will consider themes of importance 
 today.\n\nDr. Edward Halperin is Chancellor and CEO of New York Medical 
 College\; professor of radiation oncology\, pediatrics\, and history\; and 
 holds an endowed chair in biomedical ethics after the Holocaust.\n\n
LOCATION:Gordon Hall
ORGANIZER;CN="Emily R. Novak":MAILTO:Emily_Novak@hms.harvard.edu
CATEGORIES:Events, History of Medicine
CONTACT;CN="Emily R. Novak":MAILTO:Emily_Novak@hms.harvard.edu
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