Gatecrashers
A podcast about the hidden history of Jews and the Ivy League, from Mark Oppenheimer.
GatecrashersIntroducing GatecrashersA podcast about the hidden history of Jews and the Ivy League, from Unorthodox co-host Mark OppenheimerSeptember 6, 2022- GatecrashersEp. 1: Columbia and Its Forgotten Jewish CampusWhat was Seth Low Junior College, and why did the brilliant Jewish writer Isaac Asimov get sent there?September 13, 2022
- GatecrashersEp. 2: Princeton and the Dirty Bicker of 1958The curious social scandal that left Jews out of—and nearly upended—the school’s exclusive eating clubsSeptember 13, 2022
- GatecrashersEp. 3: Dartmouth and the Jews Who Loved ItHow a laid-back college in the mountains became an unlikely oasis for midcentury JewsSeptember 20, 2022
- GatecrashersEp. 4: Yale and the Slow Death of QuotasThe truth about historical caps on Jewish enrollment in the Ivy LeagueSeptember 23, 2022
- GatecrashersEp. 5: Brown University and Mrs. Smith’s Kosher KitchenThe Providence, Rhode Island, family that fed observant Jewish students and the 1960s push for on-campus kosher dining optionsOctober 4, 2022
- GatecrashersEp. 6: Cornell and Its Off-Campus, Off-Kilter Jewish CommuneThe Cornell Havurah, a countercultural ‘anti-establishment establishment’ that brought Jewish students togetherOctober 11, 2022
- GatecrashersEp. 7: Penn and the Great Sorority Coup of 1987Jewish Greek life, stereotypes, and what it means to represent Jewish womanhoodOctober 18, 2022
- GatecrashersEp. 8: Harvard and the End of the Jewish Ivy LeagueDeclining Jewish student numbers, the changing face of the American university, and what happens in the generations after the gates are crashedOctober 25, 2022