The 19th Jew

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…