Bryn Mawr to Place Moratorium on Buildings Named for an Anti-Semitic Founder

Bryn Mawr College in suburban Philadelphia said it will place a yearlong “moratorium” on the use of the name of a founder and past president who was a known anti-Semite.  The name of the library and great hall are named for M. Carey Thomas, who served as the private college’s president from 1894 to 1922. According to biographer Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Thomas prevented the hiring of Jewish teachers at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, and later made sure she was not dealing with Jewish candidates for faculty positions at the college.