> These are markedly distinct career paths from the ones taken by homegrown Jews, Actually "Oppenheimer" the movie also supplies examples of two very different

> These are markedly distinct career paths from the ones taken by homegrown Jews, Actually "Oppenheimer" the movie also supplies examples of two very different New York Jewish backgrounds: J Robert Oppenheimer, from an affluent, non-religious family - with an Upper West side apartment and a summer vacation home on Long Island. His father came to the USA as a teenager, and prospered in business. Isidor Isaac Rabi, from an orthodox, Yiddish-speaking family living in a two-room apartment on the Lower East Side. He was born shortly before the family came to the USA.