A Chosen Calling: Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century

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contents Preface. A Vanload of Rabbis in the Culture Wars of Kentucky ix introduction “Ridiculously Disproportionate”? 1 chapter 1 “Holding High the Torch of Civilization”: American Jews and Twentieth-Century Science 12 chapter 2 “Second Only to Communism”: Making Soviet Jews and Soviet Science 39 chapter 3 “Making a Land of Experiments”: Science and Technology in Zionist Imagination and Enterprise 64 conclusion When All Worlds Were New Worlds 94 Notes 105 Index 143 This page intentionally left blank ...