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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

 

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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