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Noah J. Efron
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English
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149

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Subjects
Jewish scientists, Jewish influences, Jews, Social aspects, Science, Civilization, Judaism and science, Intellectual life, History, Forschung, 02.11 sociology of science, Naturwissenschaften, Juden, Wissenschaft, Science, social aspects, Religion and science, Jews, united states, Jews, intellectual life, Jews, russia (federation), Jews, palestine, Scientists, United states, civilization, Russia (federation), civilization
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United States, Palestine, Israel, Russia
Times
20th century

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-141) and index.

Series
Medicine, science, and religion in historical context, Medicine, science, and religion in historical context
Other Titles
Jews in science in the twentieth century

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Dewey Decimal Class
500.892/4009041
Library of Congress
Q180.55.S62 E37 2014, Q180.55.S62E37 2014

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xv, 149 pages
Number of pages
149

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OL27166556M
ISBN 10
1421413817
ISBN 13
9781421413815
LCCN
2013036532
OCLC/WorldCat
858778267

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