Why are Jewish people (in general) so successful in the Western societies?

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Don't pay attention to Davis anti-semitic rant, it's not true.

The main reason is the value of education. Getting an education is a very important value in jewish families. You should check statistics on percentage that finish high school and college, compared to other races. And if you take Europe in 19th century, the difference is even more striking - a huge part of population could not even read while Jewish kids age 9 could were home-schooled to read and write.

As to why they went into banking in Europe, is because Christians could not go into banking - Christians could not charge interest due to the laws of that time.