02676nam 2200673 450 991081690880332120230124184757.01-4214-1382-5(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 centuryUnited StatesCivilizationJewish influencesRussiaCivilizationJewish influencesPalestineCivilizationJewish influencesScienceSocial aspects.Judaism and science.JewsIntellectual lifeJewsIntellectual lifeJewsIntellectual life500.892/4009041Efron Noah J.1720547MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816908803321A chosen calling4119293UNINA