Jews and Science

Jews and Science examines the complicated relationship between Jewish identities and the evolving meanings of science throughout the history of Western academic culture. Jews have been not only the agents for study of things Jewish, but also the subject of examination by "scientists" acros...

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Main Author: Gilman, Sander L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, IN : Purdue University Press, 2022.
Series:The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Jews and Science The Jewish Role in American Life An Annual Review of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • FOREWORD
  • EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
  • DEFINING SCIENCE
  • DEFINING JEWS
  • Science, Imperialism, and Heteromasculinity in the Wissenschaft des Judentums
  • Philosophers of Catastrophe: Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Proponents and Opponents of Objectivity in Science
  • Medical History: A Blank Spot in Jewish Studies?
  • Jewish Scientists and Scholars at the University of Vienna from the Late Habsburg Period until the Early Post-War Years
  • HUMAN BIOLOGY: GENETICS IN THE NOW
  • "Questions Remain": Racialism, Geneticism, and the Continuing Lure of Jewish Essentialism
  • Science, Sovereignty, and Diaspora: Alternative Genealogies and DNA Research on Jewish Populations
  • ISRAEL STUDIES AND SCIENCE
  • The Fusion of Zionism and Science: The First Two Decades-and the Present Day?
  • Israel as a Laboratory in the Time of COVID-19
  • JEWS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
  • Environmental History and Jewish Studies: Methodological Intersections and Opportunities
  • Changing Climates: Zionist Medical Climatology in Palestine, 1897-1948
  • ISRAEL STUDIES AND SCIENCE
  • Jews and Science: A Note
  • Science and Judaism
  • ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
  • ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE