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It took 30 years for an American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, despite most of the best writing of the era coming from America. When an American finally won, it was the [[socialist]] [[Sinclair Lewis]] in 1930, whose writing often bears a strong resemblance to anti-American, socialist propaganda.
It took 30 years for an American to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, despite most of the best writing of the era coming from America. When an American finally won, it was the [[socialist]] [[Sinclair Lewis]] in 1930, whose writing often bears a strong resemblance to anti-American, socialist propaganda.
== Richard Dawkins on Jew and Nobel Prizes ==
''See also:'' [[Richard Dawkins on Jew and Nobel Prizes]]
[[File:Richard Dawkins 35th American Atheists Convention.jpg|alt=Richard Dawkins|thumbnail|200px|right|[[Richard Dawkins]] ]]
The website Algemeinor declares:
{{Cquote|The usually self-assured biologist, author and atheist [[Richard Dawkins]] expressed his bewilderment at the disproportionate amount of [[Nobel Prize|Nobel prizes]] won by Jews in a recent interview with the New Republic, saying he is “intrigued by” the “phenomenally high” number of [[Jew]]ish laureates...
Asked why he thought it is that Jews have won so many Nobel Prizes, Dawkins was forthright with his uncertainty.
“I haven’t thought it through. I don’t know. But I don’t think it is a minor thing; it is colossal. I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.”
According to the Jewish Virtual Library, since the Nobel was first awarded in 1901 approximately 193 of the 855 honorees have been Jewish (22%). Jews make up less than 0.2% of the global population.
This year 6 of 12 laureates were Jewish. The 13th laureate, for the Nobel Peace Prize, was awarded to an organization and not an individual.<ref>[https://www.algemeiner.com/2013/10/29/richard-dawkins-perplexed-by-high-number-of-jewish-nobel-prize-winners/ Richard Dawkins Perplexed by High Number of Jewish Nobel Prize Winners]</ref>}}
=== Botticini and Eckstein on Jewish intellectual achievements ===
[[File:Prophet Moses.jpg|thumb|200px|left|The prophet Moses wrote the [[Torah]] which is the first five books of the Bible. Moses was a [[creationism|creationist]]. ]]
Rabbi Ismar Schorsch said relating to the history of the Jews: "The primacy of the [[Torah]] required literacy and learning of everyone. Henceforth, leadership would be determined by study rather than birth."<ref>[http://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/torah-like-water/ Torah like Water] by Rabbi Ismar Schorsch</ref>
According to Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein:
{{Cquote|...in the world of almost universal illiteracy back 2,000 years, the Jewish religious leadership — the rabbis and scholars in the academies in Judea and Galilee — required each Jewish individual, child or adult, rich or poor, farmer or merchant, to learn to read and study the Torah. Instead of restricting learning, study and knowledge to a small elite, the Jewish religious leadership of that time went exactly in the opposite direction: it pushed Judaism toward making literacy, education and knowledge universal among all Jews. Centuries later, this apparently odd choice of a religious norm became the lever of the economic prosperity and intellectual achievements of the Jews.<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/jewish-literacy-as-the-road-to/ Jewish Literacy as the Road to Riches: The Chosen Path of the ‘Chosen Few], PBS</ref>}}
== See also ==
== See also ==