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G�F6;ttingen University was a product of the Enlightenment. But although there were occasional appointments of Jewish mathematicians in the second half of the 19th century, a policy of highly selective proportional representation in favor of non-Jewish mathematicians was still in place at the end of the century, creating a barrier that even Jews with the highest qualifications in mathematics could not break through.
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Rowe, D.E., Scholz, E. (2012). Göttingen. In: Bergmann, B., Epple, M., Ungar, R. (eds) Transcending Tradition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22464-5_5
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