re: How long has Tulane had a fairly large jewish population?

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As late as the eighties a lot of New Orleanians still went there

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I always heard it was 75% Yankees

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Who are the other 4?

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They can be found at the Jewish Cemetary onthe 1400 block of North St.

That sounds like marketing bs. There were plenty of private universities that accepted Jews, though they did try to recruit out of state students to decrease the Jewish percentage.

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I have always heard Tulane was founded by Yankees for southern Jews.

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It was founded as a public university first and then Paul Tulane donated a bunch of money and set up the Tulane Educational Fund. In 1884 the state ceded control of the university to the trust which turned it into a private school.

I thought Dhillip was a Hindu

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It was founded as a public university first and then Paul Tulane donated a bunch of money and set up the Tulane Educational Fund. In 1884 the state ceded control of the university to the trust which turned it into a private school.

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It was the ORIGINAL University of Louisiana. If I were Tulane, I'd smack down USL and NLU.

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I moved to Baton Rouge about 6 years ago and since then I can count on one hand the number of Jewish people I've met.

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Baton Rouge has at least 2 active synagogues.

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Merrill Lynch (founded in New Orleans by Jews), United Fruit Co. (Jewish), DH Homes/Maison Blanche/Godchauxs (all Jewish).

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Adam Sandler has begun writing his New Orleans Chanukah song.

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I was talking to a professor about this and it made me think to ask if anyone who's known the area for a long time would know. I've always found it interesting that Tulane while being non affiliated with any particular religion has seemed to have attracted a very large amount of Jewish students in one of the more Catholic dominated parts of the country for at least a few decades. What makes me ask is my professor himself is Jewish (and also probably in his 70s to help you figure out a timeline) told me that when his father applied to Medical School there he was denied because at that point they had quotas for Jewish students, indicated that they even used to discriminate against them.

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It's had a sizable Jewish contingent since forever. My Jewish grandmother attended Newcomb (the all womens college that merged with Tulane) in the 40's. I have several other great aunts and uncles on that side of the family that did as well. New Orleans has had a sizable Jewish population since the early 1800's. Judah P. Benjamin, a member of Confederate President Jefferson Davis's cabinet, hailed from New Orleans. In fact, every small town around Louisiana and Mississippi had at least one Jewish family that ran a department store back then. The ACE Hardware in Donaldsonville was originally built as a synagogue, and is the oldest synagogue still standing in North America. It wasn't until around the turn of the century that most of those little Jewish families left the small towns and moved to New Orleans so their daughters could find suitable Jewish men to marry.

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Baton Rouge however probably has 6 Jews in the entire city and they are waiting for Israel to fly them out of that oppressive shithole.

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A little more than that but close enough. They still had to build two temples.