“Louis D. Rubin Jr.”
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1967 - Louis D. Rubin (1923-2013) Begins Teaching English
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Louis D. Rubin, Jr., formerly of Hollins College, begins a 22-year teaching career at UNC, during which time he co-founded, with C. Hugh Holman in 1968, the Southern Literary Journal (now south), and the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Rubin also founded Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 1982 and wrote and edited almost 40 books.
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01/01/1967
Louis D. Rubin, Jr., formerly of Hollins College, begins a 22-year teaching career at UNC, during which time he co-founded, with C. Hugh Holman in 1968, the Southern Literary Journal (now south), and the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Rubin also founded Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 1982 and wrote and edited almost 40 books, among them A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature (1969), A History of Southern Literature (1985), and My Father’s People: A Family of Southern Jews (2002), which discusses his family’s experiences as immigrant Southern Jews.
Rubin came to Carolina at a time when the number of Jewish students at UNC was declining. A large number of Jewish students had enrolled in the early 1900s because UNC did not have an undergraduate quota. Due to the rise in anti-semitism, many universities throughout the country placed a quota on the number of Jewish students they would enroll. While UNC did not place a quota on undergraduates, the School of Medicine would only allow 10 percent of incoming students to be Jewish. This requirement was overturned by UNC President Frank Porter Graham in 1933 who was against quotas as a supporter of the leftist Jewish Labor Committee and a member of the National Conference for Christians and Jews.
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“Frank Porter Graham, Far Right, with the Jewish Labor Committee.” “Jewish Life at Carolina.” The Carolina Story: A Virtual Museum of University History. 2006. Carolina Digital Library and Archives, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, https://museum.unc.edu/exhibits/show/jewishlife/frank-porter-graham--far-right.
“Louis D. Rubin Jr. Papers, circa 1929-1996” [finding aid]. Collection no. 03899, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/03899/.
“Louis Decimus Rubin, Jr.” Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities,https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/media_player?mets_filename=evm00000742mets.xml.
“Obstacles to Learning.” Down Home, Duke Center for Jewish Studies, sites.duke.edu/downhome/obstacles-to-learning-3/.
“Society for the Study of Southern Literature Records 1968- [ongoing]” [finding aid]. Collection no. 4986, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04986/.
