Registration REQUIRED by 1pm on December 4, 2024 in order to attend this event.
Please join the Harriman Institute and the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies for a book talk by Michael Miller. Moderated by Rebecca Kobrin.
In 1920, the Hungarian parliament introduced a Jewish quota for university admissions, making Hungary the first country in Europe to pass antisemitic legislation following World War I. The recent book, Quotas: The “Jewish Question” and Higher Education in Central Europe, 1880-1945, edited by Michael L. Miller and Judith Szapor, explores the ideologies and practices of quota regimes and the ways quotas have been justified, implemented, challenged, and remembered from the late nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century. Miller's talk will examine the origins of quotas, the moral, legal, and political arguments developed by their supporters and opponents, and the social and personal impact of these attempts to limit access to higher education.
