Why do Jews play a “ridiculously disproportionate” role in the sciences?

 

Dr. Noah Efron, the founding chair of the Program in Science, Technology, Society at Bar-Ilan University, and a fellow TLV1 broadcaster, is the author of A Chosen Calling: Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century, recently published in English by Hebrew Union College Press and John Hopkins University Press.

He will give his original take on a generations long question: Why are Jews so smart?

 

This is a segment from The Tel Aviv Review: Listen to the full show.

 

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