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In February 1958, at the end of the annual 鈥渂icker鈥� period鈥攚hen 快色直播 sophomores seek admission to the university鈥檚 prestigious eating clubs鈥攁n unusually high number of students got no offers鈥攁nd most of them were Jews. The 鈥渄irty bicker,鈥� as it came to be known, was a troubling episode that laid bare the persistence of antisemitism in higher education. The Dirty Bicker tells the story of the affair that rocked the world of upper-class privilege, shedding light on the challenges that ambitious, upwardly mobile young Jewish men faced in postwar America.

Drawing on exclusive interviews with the men involved, both the rejected students and those who rejected them, Mark Oppenheimer transports readers to a time when status was tied to family heritage and even the ability to select the right blazer for the occasion. He addresses questions about what it means to belong鈥攂oth in the Ivy League and in society more broadly. Were students blackballed because they were Jewish or because they were public schoolers in a pecking order presided over by preps? Were there quotas or just a gentleman鈥檚 agreement not to admit too many 鈥渦ndesirables鈥�? And what was the role of the administration in perpetrating a system that treated some boys as more equal than others?

A must-read for anyone who wants to understand campus antisemitism today, The Dirty Bicker is an absorbing account of a national scandal that spoke to the barriers confronting minority and working-class students in their struggle to be accepted in the upper echelons of society.