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Jews and the Natural Sciences: Genetics

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

Genetics

  • Barilan, Y. Michael
    “The debate on human cloning.  Some Contributions from the Jewish tradition,” pp. 311-340 in, Cross-cultural Issues in Bioethics: The Example of Human Cloning (Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006) ed. Heiner Roetz
    Van Pelt Library. QH442.2 .C768 2006

  • Barlian, Y. Michael and G. Seigal
    “Stem cell research:  Jewish and Israeli perspectives,” pp. 293-323 in, Grenzüberschreitungen.  Kulturelle, religiöse und politische Differenzen in der Stammzellforschung (Münster:  Agenda Verlag, 2005) edd. Wolfgang Bender, Christine Hauskeller and Alexandra Manzei
    Van Pelt Library. QH588.S83 G74 2005

  • Brody, Aaron J and Roy J. King
    “Genetics and the Archaeology of Ancient Israel,” Human Biology 85.6 (2013) 925–40
    https://muse.jhu.edu/article/548068/pdf

  • Charrow, Joel
    “Ashkenazi Jewish genetic disorders,” Familial Cancer 3 (2004) 201-6
    https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10689-004-9545-z.pdf

  • Dorff, Elliot N. and Laurie Zoloth, edd.
    Jews and Genes: The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought
    U of Nebraska Press, 2015
    https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/upenn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1920598

  • Fraikor, Arlene L.
    “Tay‐Sachs disease: Genetic drift among the Ashkenazim Jews,” Social Biology 24 (1977) 117-134
    Research Annex (LIBRA). HQ750.A1 E84

  • Goldstein, David B.
    Jacob's legacy: A genetic view of Jewish history
    Yale University Press, 2008
    Van Pelt Library. GN547 .G65 2008

  • Goodman, Richard M.
    “Various genetic traits and diseases among the Jewish ethnic groups,” Birth Defects Original Articles Series 10 (1974) 205–219
    Van Pelt Library. RG626 .B63

  • Goodman, Richard M.
    Genetic Disorders among the Jewish people
    Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1979
    Katz Center - Stacks. RB155 .G67 1979
    Van Pelt Library. RB155 .G67

  • Israeli-Elhaik, Eran
    “The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry:  Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses,” Genome Biology and Evolution 5 (2013) 61-74
    https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1208/1208.1092.pdf

  • Kedar-Barnes, Inbal and Rozen Paul
    “The Jewish people: their ethnic history, genetic disorders and specific cancer susceptibility,” Familial Cancer 3 (2004) 193-199
    https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10689-004-9544-0.pdf

  • Lynch Henry T., Wendy S. Rubinstein and Gershon Y. Locker
    “Cancer in Jews: introduction and overview,” Familial Cancer 3 (2004) 177-92
    https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10689-004-9538-y.pdf

  • Mozersky, Jessica
    Risky Genes: Genetics, Breast Cancer, and Jewish Identity
    Routledge, 2013
    Van Pelt Library. RC280.B8 M69 2013

  • Ostrer, Harry
    Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People
    Oxford University Press, 2012
    Holman Biotech Commons. GN547 .O88 2012

  • Pollack, Robert
    “Genetics and morality,” pp. 45-53, Judaism, Science, and Moral Responsibility (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) edd. Yitzhak Berger and David Shatz
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 O78 2002
    Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 O78 2002

  • Risch, Neil, Hua Tang, Howard Katzenstein and Josef Ekstein
    “Geographic Distribution of Disease Mutations in the Ashkenazi Jewish Population Supports Genetic Drift over Selection,” American Journal of Human Genetics 72 (2003) 812–822
    Research Annex (LIBRA). QH431.A1

  • Rosenberg, Noah A. and Steven P. Weitzman
    “From Generation to Generation: The Genetics of Jewish Populations,” Human Biology 85.6 (2013) 817-823
    https://muse.jhu.edu/article/548063/pdf

  • Shatz, David
    “Is matter all that matters? : Judaism, freedom, and the genetic and neuroscientific revolutions,” pp. 54-103in, Judaism, Science, and Moral Responsibility (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) edd. Yitzhak Berger and David Shatz
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 O78 2002
    Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 O78 2002

  • Thomas, M.G., M.E. Weale, A.L. Jones, et al.
    “Founding mothers of Jewish communities: geographically separated Jewish groups were independently founded by very few female ancestors,” American Journal of Human Genetics 70 (2002) 1411-1420
    Research Annex (LIBRA). QH431.A1

  • p>Wahrman, Miryam Z.
    Brave New Judaism: When Science and Scripture Collide
    Hanover and London:  Universtiy Press of New England, 2004
    Research Annex (LIBRA).  BM538.S3 W34 2002
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