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Jews and the Natural Sciences: General

Understanding science in the widest possible sense, this guide offers resources for how Jews investigate, react to, and engage with the physical universe.

General

  • Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 A447
    Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 A447
    https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/283

  • Berger, Natalia
    Jews and Medicine: Religion, Culture, Science
    Tel Aviv:  Beth Hatefutsoth, 1995
    Van Pelt Library. R694.J49 1995

  • Cohen, Harry, Itzhak J Carmin and Louis Gershenfeld
    Jews in the World of Science: A Biographical Dictionary of Jews Eminent in the Natural and Social Sciences
    New York : Monde Publishers, 1956
    Katz Center - Stacks. Q128.C65 1956
    Van Pelt Library.  Q128.C65 1956

  • Efron, Noah J.
    A Chosen Calling: Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context
    Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014
    Van Pelt Library. Q180.55.S62 E37 2014

  • Ferré, Lola
    “The Place of Scientific Knowledge for some Spanish Jewish Authors,” Micrologus: nature, sciences and medieval societies IX (2001) 21-34
    Research Annex (LIBRA). Q124.97 .M537

  • Fishman, David
    “Rabbi Moses Isserles and the Study of Science among Polish Rabbis,” Science in Context 10 (1997) 571-88
    Van Pelt Library. Q175.4 .S343

  • Fontaine, Resianne, ed.
    Studies in the history of culture and science: a tribute to Gad Freudenthal
    Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 S78 2011
    Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 S78 2011

  • Freudenthal, Gad
    Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic traditions
    Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing, 2005
    Van Pelt Library. Q124.97 .F74 2005

  • Freudenthal, Gad
    Science in medieval Jewish cultures
    New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011
    Van Pelt Library. Q128 .S35 2011

  • Gimbel, Steven
    Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion
    Baltimore:  JHU Press, 2012
    Van Pelt Library. QC173.55 .G55 2012

  • Hollinger, David A.
    Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-twentieth-century American Intellectual History
    Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1998
    Katz Center - Stacks. E184.J5 H646 1996
    Van Pelt Library. E184.J5 H646 1996

  • Harvey, Steven, ed.
    The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy
    Dordercht ; Boston ; London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000
    Katz Center - Stacks. AE1 .M43 2000

  • Kottek, Samuel S.
    “ Jews between Profane and Sacred Science in Renaissance Italy:  The Case of Abraham Portaleone,” pp. 108-118 in, Religious Confessions and the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001) edd. Jürgen Helm and Annette Winkelmann
    Katz Center - Stacks. BL240.3 .R45 2001
    Van Pelt Library. BL240.3 .R45 2001

  • Kozodoy, Maud
    “Scientific Transmission Outside the University,” pp. 37-50 in, The Secret Faith of Maestre Honoratus. Profayt Duran and Jewish Identity in Late Medieval Iberia (Philadelphia,. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS135.S8 D875 2015
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.S8 D875 2015
    https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/1598578

  • Langermann, Y. Tzvi
    “On the Beginnings of Hebrew Scientific Literature and on Studying History through "Maqbilot" [Parallels],” Aleph 2 (2002) 169-190
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 A447
    Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 A447

  • Langermann, Y. Tzvi
    “Was there no science in Ashkenaz?  The Ashkenazic reception of some early-medieval Hebrew scientific texts,” Jahrbuch des Simon Dubnow-Instituts 8 (2009) 67–92
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS101 .J337
    Van Pelt Library. DS101 .J337

  • Langermann, Y. Tzvi
    “Science in the Jewish Communities of the Iberian Peninsula: An Interim Report,” pp. 1-54 in, The Jews and the Sciences in the Middle Ages, (Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing,  1999) ed. Y. Tzvi Langermann
    Katz Center - Stacks. Q124 .L36 1999
    Van Pelt Library. Q124 .L36 1999

  • Langermann, Y. Tzvi
    “Science in the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Cultural Orbit,” pp. 438-453 in, Science in medieval Jewish cultures (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011) ed. Gad Freudenthal
    Van Pelt Library. Q128 .S35 2011

  • Levy, B. Barry
    Planets, Potions, and Parchments: Scientifica Hebraica from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Eighteenth Century
    MontreĢal ; Buffalo : Published for the Jewish Public Library by McGill-Queen's University Press, McGill-Queen's Press, 1990
    Van Pelt Library. Q105.C32 M65 1990

  • Marx, Alexander
    “The Scientific Works of Some Outstanding Medieval Jewish Scholars,” pp. 117-170 in, Essays and Studies in Memory of Linda R. Miller (New York, The Jewish theological seminary of America, 1938)
    Van Pelt - Non Circulating.  BM42.M555 D385 1938

  • Miletto, Gianfranco
    “Tradition and Innovation:  Religion, Science and Jewish Culture Between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” pp. 99-107 in, Religious Confessions and the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001) edd. Jürgen Helm and Annette Winkelmann
    Katz Center - Stacks. BL240.3 .R45 2001
    Van Pelt Library. BL240.3 .R45 2001

  • Neher, André
    Jewish Thought and the Scientific Revolution of the Sixteenth Century: David Gans (1541-1613) and His Times
    Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Published for the Littman Library by Oxford University Press, 1986
    Van Pelt - Non Circulating. QB36.G36 N4413 1986

  • Preston, David Lawrence
    Science, Society and the German Jews, 1870-1933
    Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois, 1971
    Van Pelt Library. DS135.G33 P7 1971a

    Reiner, Elchanan
    “The Attitude of Ashkenazic Society to the New Science of the Sixteenth Century,” Science in Context 10 (1997) 589-604
    Van Pelt Library. Q175.4 .S343

  • Ruderman, David B.
    Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe
    Wayne State University Press, 1995
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 R828 1995
    Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 R828 1995

  • Samuelson, Norbert M.
    “The Challenges of the Modern Sciences for Jewish Faith,” pp. 12-27 in, Judaism and Science, Special Issue of CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly (Winter 2012) edd. Philip Cohen and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM197.A1 C2

  • Sandman, Israel M.
    “The transmission of Sephardic Scientific Works in Italy,” pp. 198-221 in, Texts in Transit in the Medieval Mediterranean (Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) edd. Y. Tzvi Langermann and Robert G. Morrison
    Van Pelt Library. Z106.5.M43 T49 2016

  • Sela, Shlomo, ed. and trans.
    Abraham Ibn Ezra on Elections, Interrogations and Medical Astrology: A Parallel Hebrew English Critical Edition of the Book of Elections (3 Versions), the Book of Interrogations (3 versions) and the Book of the Luminaries
    Leiden-Boston, 2011
    Katz Center - Stacks. BF1718 .I26213 2011
    Van Pelt Library. BF1718 .I26213 2011

  • Veltri, Giuseppe
    “Science and Religious Hermeneutics:  The ‘Philosophy’ of Rabbi Loew of Prague,” pp. 119-135 in, Religious Confessions and the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001) edd. Jürgen Helm and Annette Winkelmann
    Katz Center - Stacks. BL240.3 .R45 2001
    Van Pelt Library. BL240.3 .R45 2001

  • Wolfson, H.A.
    “The Classification of the Sciences in Medieval Jewish Philosophy,” Hebrew Union College Jubilee Volume (1925) 215-263
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM42 .H43 1925
    Katz Center - Reference Room. BM42 .H43 1925
    Van Pelt - Non Circulating.  BM42 .H43 1925

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