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Jewish students at Hopkins have had a long tradition of putting on a Purim party. In the 1960s, there was one community-oriented party with traditional Jewish music and a reading of themegillah, or Scroll of Esther. In later years, two parties were…

Records of the Menorah Society board, along with that of the later Zionist Society, give us an idea of the Jewish leaders on campus at that time. Several of Baltimore's leading families were involved with the organizations-- in this case including…

The Menorah Society was an inter-campus group that studied topics related to Jews, among them Israel (then Ottoman and later Mandatory Palestine), Judaism, and Biblical studies. Although it was primarily a Jewish group, apparently non-Jews were also…

The Zionist society was founded and organized largely with support of Jewish faculty, especially Professor David Blondheim. He became the first editor ofKadimah, the journal of the Intercampus Zionist Council. The Baltimore chapter helped lead the…

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Due to the large number of Jews on campus, the Interfraternity board decided to open its membership to students from the Jewish fraternities as well as the non-Jewish ones. While this indicates structural anti-Semitism (Jewish students specifically…

This is one of the first instances of a student holiday celebration, and presumably served Jewish students from outside Baltimore. Rabbi Rosenblatt was a regular lecturer at Hopkins, and published many articles in Jewish journals.

Demonstrating the academic bent of the Jewish students at this time, two Jewish fraternities, Alpha Epsilon Pi and Phi Epsilon Pi, were in the top three of academic standing. This goes along with the Jewish students' no-nonsense striving attitude at…