"This is a Christian institution and we will tolerate no Jews here": The Brooklyn Interns Hazing Episodes

Anti-semitism in U.S. medical education rarely flared into acts of violence; except in Brooklyn. Presenting the results of recently completed research, Dr. Halperin will describe the assaults on the Jewish interns of Kings County Hospital in 1916 and 1927 and the implications of these assaults for the contemporary debate on immigration and higher education.