TY - BOOK AU - Efron,Noah J. ED - Project Muse. TI - A chosen calling: Jews in science in the twentieth century T2 - Medicine, science, and religion in historical context SN - 9781421413822 AV - Q180.55.S62 E37 2014 U1 - 500.892/4009041 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Cincinnati PB - Hebrew Union College Press KW - Jewish scientists KW - Social aspects KW - Israel KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Russia KW - United States KW - Jews KW - Palestine KW - Intellectual life KW - Judaism and science KW - Science KW - Civilization KW - Jewish influences KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781421413822/ ER -