Twenty-five percent of Ivy League school professors are Jews noted Dr. Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of government and sociology at Harvard University. Speaking before a division of the 1971 Allied Jewish Appeal-Israel Emergency Fund campaign here, Dr. Lipset discussed the role of the Jew in the academic community, pointing out that this figure represents a tremendous change since 1945, when Jewish presence in the academic community was small because of overt anti-Semitism. Dr. Lipset said, “the largest concentration of Jews is in the two major free professional fields, medicine and law,” because these areas are prestigious and least subject to the prejudices and whims of employers. Dr. Lipset explained Jewish activity in academia as being a product of Jewish culture.
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