Jewish Quota

A Jewish quota is a discriminatory racial quota designed to limit or deny Jewish access to particular institutions, most often universities and other prestigious centers of higher education during the 19th and 20th centuries. Such quotas were enacted in Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, the United States, and Yugoslavia, flourishing mainly between the 1920s and the 1960s though some date earlier. Hungary's 1920 numerus clausus law, one of the best documented examples, reduced Jewish enrollment in higher education from about 15 percent to roughly 6 percent of the student body, and at Yale's medical school only five Jewish applicants were admitted out of about 200 in 1935. The restrictions forced many qualified Jewish students to study abroad or attend alternative institutions, effectively excluding them from leading academic centers, and some universities maintained informal caps into the 1960s before the practice gradually disappeared. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/