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Jews and science / edited by Steven J. Ross, Sander L. Gilman, Lisa Ansell.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Ansell, Lisa, editor.
Gilman, Sander L., editor.
Ross, Steven Joseph, editor.
Series:
Jewish role in American life.
Jewish role in American life
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Jews--Identity.
Jews.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxii, 246 pages).
Place of Publication:
West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, 2022.
Summary:
Examines the complicated relationship between Jewish identities and the evolving meanings of science throughout the history of Western academic culture. The book presents contributions by scholars from various disciplines to discuss the complexity in defining "science" across multiple fields within Jewish studies.
Contents:
FOREWORD
EDITORIAL
INTRODUCTION
DEFINING SCIENCE; DEFINING JEWS
Science, Imperialism, and Heteromasculinity in the Wissenschaft des Judentums, by Susannah Heschel
Philosophers of Catastrophe: Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Proponents and Opponents of Objectivity in Science, by Steven Gimbel and Stephen Stern
Medical History: A Blank Spot in Jewish Studies?, by Robert Jütte
Jewish Scientists and Scholars at the University of Vienna from the Late Habsburg Period until the Early Post-War Years, by Mitchell G. Ash
HUMAN BIOLOGY: GENETICS IN THE NOW"Questions Remain": Racialism, Geneticism, and the Continuing Lure of Jewish Essentialism, by Mitchell B. Hart
Science, Sovereignty, and Diaspora: Alternative Genealogies and DNA Research on Jewish Populations, by Yulia Egorova
ISRAEL STUDIES AND SCIENCE
The Fusion of Zionism and Science: The First Two Decades-and the Present Day?, by Amos Morris-Reich and Danny Trom
Israel as a Laboratory in the Time of COVID-19, by Sander L. Gilman
JEWS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Environmental History and Jewish Studies: Methodological Intersections and Opportunities, by Dean Phillip Bell
Changing Climates: Zionist Medical Climatology in Palestine, 1897-1948, by Netta Cohen
Jews and Science: A Note, by David A. Hollinger
Science and Judaism, by Roald Hoffmann
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE.
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ISBN:
9781612498034
1612498035

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