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A chosen calling : Jews in science in the twentieth century / Noah J. Efron.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Efron, Noah J., author.
- Series:
- Medicine, science, and religion in historical context.
- Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science.
- Judaism and science.
- Jews--United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Jews.
- Jews--Russia--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Jews--Palestine--Intellectual life--20th century.
- United States--Civilization--Jewish influences.
- United States.
- Russia--Civilization--Jewish influences.
- Russia.
- Palestine--Civilization--Jewish influences.
- Palestine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (168 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland ; Cincinnati : Johns Hopkins University Press : Hebrew Union College Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-1382-5
- OCLC:
- 878117049
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