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Tikkun Magazine - A Jewish Magazine, an Interfaith Movement

Tikkun Magazine - A Jewish Magazine, an Interfaith Movement

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The National Security Archive Jewish Genius Since its first issue in 1945, COMMENTARY has published hundreds of articles about Jews and Judaism. As one would expect, they cover just about every important aspect of the topic. But there is a lacuna, and not one involving some obscure bit of Judaica. I have personal experience with the reluctance of Jews to talk about Jewish accomplishment—my co-author, the late Richard Herrnstein, gently resisted the paragraphs on Jewish IQ that I insisted on putting in The Bell Curve (1994). And so this Scots-Irish Gentile from Iowa hereby undertakes to tell the story. From 800 B.C.E. through the first millennium of the Common Era, we have just two examples of great Jewish accomplishment, and neither falls strictly within the realms of the arts or sciences. But religious literature is the exception. Generally speaking, this remained the case well into the Renaissance and beyond. The sparse representation of Jews during the flowering of the European arts and sciences is not hard to explain.

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