UID:
almahu_9949711189902882
Format:
1 online resource (xxii, 246 pages).
ISBN:
9781612498034
Series Statement:
Jewish role in American life
Content:
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.
Note:
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 -- ISRAEL STUDIES AND SCIENCE -- Jews and Science: A Note, by David A. Hollinger -- Science and Judaism, by Roald Hoffmann -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781612498010
Language:
English
