“Anti-Semitism at Columbia in the Nicholas Murray Butler Era: A Conversation with Michael Rosenthal,” Roberta and William Campbell Professor Emeritus in the Teaching of Literature Humanities and author of Nicholas Miraculous (2006).
Twenty years after the publication of Nicholas Miraculous (2006), his biography of Columbia’s influential president, Nicholas Murray Butler, Professor Emeritus Michael Rosenthal revisits Butler’s long tenure in a conversation with Frank Wolf. Professor Rosenthal, who served for many years as Associate Dean of Columbia College (1972–89), reflects on Butler’s legacy as a national figure, Nobel Prize laureate, and leading public intellectual who led Columbia from 1902 to 1945. Butler’s influence on the development of the modern college admissions process in the United States was profound, an influence closely tied to his efforts to restrict the enrollment of Jewish undergraduates in Columbia College.
Michael Rosenthal is the former Associate Dean of Columbia College and the Roberta and William Campbell Professor in the Teaching of Literature Humanities in Columbia’s English Department. A scholar of late Victorian and Edwardian literature and culture, his work explores British popular culture, Bloomsbury, and the modern British novel. He is the author of several books, including Nicholas Miraculous on Columbia President Nicholas Murray Butler; The Character Factory on Baden-Powell and the Boy Scouts; a study of Virginia Woolf; and Barney: Grove Press and Barney Rosset, a biography of the maverick American publisher.
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