Just as significantly for Humphrey, LSU was where he first got to know Jews. There had been just one Jewish family in Humphrey’s South Dakota hometown of Doland during his boyhood, and in college Hubert’s friends and professors had all been one or another flavor of Christian. But when Humphrey joined the LSU debate team, he met a law student named Alvin Rubin, the child of a Lithuanian immigrant who had reached America in 1906. Rubin knew full well the impact of intolerance. As the Nazis’ Soviet allies seized half of Poland in 1939, five of Rubin’s uncles remained stranded in Lithuania - a logical next target for Hitler or Stalin. Rubin was aware enough of his difference from the LSU mainstream to create a club called the International, Inter-religious, Inter-racial Kosher Salami Cooperative, so named for the packages he got from his mother. The members included Chinese and Panamanian students, which was as close to racial integration as LSU was prepared to permit circa 1940. It’s not clear that Humphrey was a member of the club - though I consider it highly likely - but there is no doubt that his friendship with Rubin forced him to reckon with the visceral toll of Nazism. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/23/hubert-humphrey-civil-rights-00103191
As a judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, which includes New Orleans, and later as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, he wrote more than 700 opinions. They included rulings that ended Louisiana's exemption of women from juries, applied the Voting Rights Act to local elections and upheld the rights of government employees to criticize their superiors and to organize unions. His opinions were also laced with humor. Striking down a fire department rule in Texas that allowed a chief to suspend the union president for criticizing him, Judge Rubin began his opinion with a passage from Dr. Seuss's book "Yertle the Turtle:" " 'Silence,' the king of the turtles barked back. 'I'm king, and you're only a turtle named Mac.' " "Those in authority do not readily accept public criticism by their subordinates," Judge Rubin wrote. https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/13/obituaries/alvin-b-rubin-71-judge-was-known-for-rights-rulings.html
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Just as significantly for Humphrey, LSU was where he first got to know Jews. There had been just one Jewish family in Humphrey’s South Dakota hometown of Doland during his boyhood, and in college Hubert’s friends and professors had all been one or another flavor of Christian. But when Humphrey joined the LSU debate team, he met a law student named Alvin Rubin, the child of a Lithuanian immigrant who had reached America in 1906. Rubin knew full well the impact of intolerance. As the Nazis’ Soviet allies seized half of Poland in 1939, five of Rubin’s uncles remained stranded in Lithuania - a logical next target for Hitler or Stalin.
Rubin was aware enough of his difference from the LSU mainstream to create a club called the International, Inter-religious, Inter-racial Kosher Salami Cooperative, so named for the packages he got from his mother. The members included Chinese and Panamanian students, which was as close to racial integration as LSU was prepared to permit circa 1940. It’s not clear that Humphrey was a member of the club - though I consider it highly likely - but there is no doubt that his friendship with Rubin forced him to reckon with the visceral toll of Nazism.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/23/hubert-humphrey-civil-rights-00103191
As a judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, which includes New Orleans, and later as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, he wrote more than 700 opinions. They included rulings that ended Louisiana's exemption of women from juries, applied the Voting Rights Act to local elections and upheld the rights of government employees to criticize their superiors and to organize unions.
His opinions were also laced with humor. Striking down a fire department rule in Texas that allowed a chief to suspend the union president for criticizing him, Judge Rubin began his opinion with a passage from Dr. Seuss's book "Yertle the Turtle:"
" 'Silence,' the king of the turtles barked back. 'I'm king, and you're only a turtle named Mac.' "
"Those in authority do not readily accept public criticism by their subordinates," Judge Rubin wrote.
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/13/obituaries/alvin-b-rubin-71-judge-was-known-for-rights-rulings.html
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