So, nu, who's a Jew ? (part 5)

Submitted by saltysteve on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 16:57

D. There's something special about these folk

Now speaking as an ex-Jew (according to the argument on the last page!), I am extremely proud of the achievements of my people and conclude that there is definitely something special about these folk.

Now there are about 12.5 million Jews world-wide (1995 figures), out of World population of 5,300 million. This means that about 0.25% of the world is Jewish; about 1 person out of every 400 eats gefilte fish and reads the Jewish Chronicle (This is probably a bit of a generalisation as not even most English Jews read the J.C. and some of us actually hate fish!).

So one would naturally expect that 0.25% of the worlds' scientists, musicians, entertainers, writers etc. etc. would, on average, be Jewish.

Well, it hasn't worked out like that, something has gone wrong in our calculations, our decimal point has gone haywire! Just looking in the period since the mid nineteenth century we find that about 25% of the world's scientists have been Jews. That's a full one hundred times too many!

It has been estimated also that, in 1978, over half the Nobel Prize winners were Jewish. Over 50% of the main contributors to the progress of mankind that year coming from 0.25% of the population!

The mind boggles.

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