How Soviet anti-Semitism buried Jewish scientists when between the 1970s and the 1980s, Jewish applicants to the three most prestigious Soviet universities were stymied with absurdly difficult exams filled with what became colloquially known as “coffin problems”—for their unfailing efficiency in burying the applicants’ chances for admission
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