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Re:The guy who discovered Jon Stewart and Bill Maher by savanaly on Friday October 16, 2020 @01:33AM (#24797806)
>Then again, Budapest at that time period produced a great many other world-class scientists and mathematicians, so maybe there are confounding factors there.

For one, they were all Ashkenazi too. [0]

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...

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Re:The guy who discovered Jon Stewart and Bill Maher by zaroth on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:21AM (#24798064)
> The modern United States is about 2% Jewish. Hungary in 1900 was about 5%. The most Jewish city in America, New York, is about 15% Jewish. Budapest in 1900 was 25%. It was one of the most Jewish large cities anywhere in history, excepting only Israel itself. According to Wikipedia, the city’s late 19th-century nickname was “Judapest”.
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Re:The guy who discovered Jon Stewart and Bill Maher by morceauxdebois on Friday October 16, 2020 @04:44AM (#24798885)
Wasn't Vilnius even more Jewish at the time?
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Re:The guy who discovered Jon Stewart and Bill Maher by travisjungroth on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:45AM (#24798573)
Bill Maher is half Ashkenazi and John Stewart is 3/4.
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