A chosen calling : Jews in science in the twentieth century

A chosen calling : Jews in science in the twentieth century /

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author:	Efron, Noah J. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Cincinnati : Johns Hopkins University Press ; Hebrew Union College Press, 2014
Series:	Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.
Subjects:	Science > Social aspects. Judaism and science. Jews > United States > Intellectual life > 20th century. Jews > Russia > Intellectual life > 20th century. Jews > Palestine > Intellectual life > 20th century. Jewish scientists > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century. Jewish scientists > Social aspects > Russia > History > 20th century. Jewish scientists > Social aspects > Israel > History > 20th century. United States > Civilization > Jewish influences. Russia > Civilization > Jewish influences. Palestine > Civilization > Jewish influences.
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

Preface : a vanload of rabbis in the culture wars of Kentucky
Introduction : "Ridiculously disproportionate"?
"Holding high the torch of civilization" : American Jews and twentieth-century science
"Second only to Communism" : making Soviet Jews and Soviet science
"Making a land of experiments" : science and technology in Zionist imagination and enterprise
Conclusion : when all worlds were new worlds.