02531nam 2200649 450 991046518410332120200520144314.01-4214-1382-5(CKB)2560000000141575(EBL)3318811(SSID)ssj0001182317(PQKBManifestationID)11684980(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001182317(PQKBWorkID)11168723(PQKB)11414594(MiAaPQ)EBC3318811(OCoLC)878117049(MdBmJHUP)muse32585(Au-PeEL)EBL3318811(CaPaEBR)ebr10856975(EXLCZ)99256000000014157520140414h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA chosen calling Jews in science in the twentieth century /Noah J. EfronBaltimore, Maryland ;Cincinnati :Johns Hopkins University Press :Hebrew Union College Press,2014.©20141 online resource (168 p.)Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical ContextDescription based upon print version of record.1-4214-1381-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.ScienceSocial aspectsJudaism and scienceJewsUnited StatesIntellectual life20th centuryJewsRussiaIntellectual life20th centuryJewsPalestineIntellectual life20th centuryElectronic books.ScienceSocial aspects.Judaism and science.JewsIntellectual lifeJewsIntellectual lifeJewsIntellectual life500.892/4009041Efron Noah J.931390MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465184103321A chosen calling2095168UNINA