“Initially the papers said that the fact that Louis Brandeis was picked because he was Jewish. The New York Sun said he's the first Jew ever picked for the bench - a long and bitter fight expected in the Senate over confirmation.” FirstsLongSaidFactsFightingSunNew YorkPaperJewExpectedBitterSenatePapersBenchesConfirmationLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“William Howard Taft, who he embarrassed in these congressional hearings, attacks him as an emotionalist and a socialist and a cosmopolitan in terms that kind of have an anti-Semitic overtone. And even the pro-Brandeis press supported him in terms that really seem creepy today. There's this piece from Life magazine. It says, "Mr. Brandeis is a Jew. And until now there's never been a Jew on the Supreme Court. Perhaps it's time we have one."” KindSeemsTodayTermPiecesCourtPressesJewHearingSupremeMagazinesSocialistEmbarrassedSupreme CourtCreepyAnti SemiticTaft Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“Louis Brandeis started off by embracing the Theodore Roosevelt notion that hyphenated Americanism was unpatriotic. You couldn't have dual loyalties. But then he thinks and he reads and he becomes the head of the American Zionist movement after having previously been a secular Jew in this amazing intellectual evolution.” ThinkingMovementEvolutionIntellectualNotionJewLoyaltySecularZionistAmericanismTheodoreUnpatrioticLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“And he [Louis Brandeis] talks to his young acolyte, Horace Kallen, who wrote this beautiful book called Cultural Pluralism, and he comes to believe that by being better Jews, or better members of our ethnic group, we can be better Americans, because America is like an orchestra in which identity is defined by the diversity of perspectives that we bring to the table.” BelieveBookAmericaBeautifulYoungGroupsIdentityPerspectiveMembersDiversityTablesJewDefinedOrchestraPluralismEthnic GroupsLouis BrandeisBeautiful Books Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he put it for Jews to enslave people and their descendants and to African Americans.” PeopleAbleJewDevotionAfrican AmericanAbstractTranslateUnfortunateDescendantsPluralismLouis BrandeisRacial Equality Author:Jeffrey Rosen
