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To: skinowski who wrote (219734)	9/14/2007 8:01:26 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 793846

There is enough reason to believe that Jews were smart way before the Crusades and Chmelnicki, who did not distinguish much between the smart and the stupid. I think the article by Murray which I just linked offers some far more plausible hypotheses. Here is one of them - the "Babylon selection": Perhaps. But when I suggested that the pressure of pogroms selected Jews for intelligence, I didn't mean that the persecuters cared whether Jews were smart or stupid. I meant that the smart ones had a better chance to see it coming and get out of the way.

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