The 19th Jew
Robin Hemley
1996
At her meeting with the associate dean, Edith Margareten asked the administrator, a woman in her mid-40s, about the climate for Jews at Notre Dame. “Oh, it’s fine,” she said. “I’m Methodist myself.”
“Ah,” Edith said, tilting her head ironically.
The woman flipped through the pages of a scrapbook-sized volume. Edith looked down at her lap and…
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