A chosen calling : Jews in science in the twentieth century / Noah J. Efron.

Jews in science in the twentieth century

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press ; Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press, 2014.

xv, 149 pages ; 24 cm.

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.