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Jews and the Natural Sciences: Environment

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

Environment

Bernstein, Ellen, ed.

Ecology & the Jewish Spirit: Where Nature & the Sacred Meet

Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2000

Van Pelt Library. BM538.H85 E36 1998

 

Dobb, Fred Scherlinder

“Science and Judaism in Light of Today’s Ecological Imperative,” pp. 194-09 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

 

Ehrenfeld, David and Philip J. Bentley

“Judaism and the Practice of Stewardship,” Judaism 34 (1985) 301-11

Katz Center - Periodicals B1. BM1 .J8

Van Pelt Library. BM1 .J8.

 

Fontaine, Resianne

“Between Scorching Heat and Freezing Cold: Medieval Jewish Authors on the Inhabited and Uninhabited Parts of the Earth,” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 10 (2000) 101–137

Van Pelt Library. Q127.A5 A733

 

Gerstenfeld, Manfred

Judaism, Environmentalism and the Environment: Mapping and Analysis

Jerusalem:  Ruben Mass, 1998

Research Annex (LIBRA). BM538.H85 G47 1998

 

Goodman, Lenn E.

“Respect for Nature in the Jewish Traditon,” pp. 41-70 in, Lenn E. Goodman: Judaism, Humanity, and Nature (Leiden:  Brill, 2014) edd. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes

Van Pelt Library. B5800 .L46 2015

 

Guelke, Jeanne Kay

“Judaism, Israel and Natural Resources,” pp. 433-456 in, Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures (Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2003) ed. Helaine Selin

Van Pelt Library. GF41 .N38 2003

 

Jacob, Walter and Moshe Zemer

The Environment in Jewish Law: Essays and Responsa

New York:  Berghahn Books, 2003

Van Pelt Library. KBM3127 .E58 2003

 

Katz, Eric

“Judaism and the Ecological Crisis,” pp. 55-70 in, Worldviews and Ecology (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1993) edd. Mary Evelyn Tucker and John A. Grim

Research Annex (LIBRA). GE42 .W67 1993

 

Katz, Eric

“Judaism,” pp. 81-95 in, A Companion to Environmental Philosophy (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003) ed. Dale Jamieson

Van Pelt Library. GE40 .C66 2001

 

Morris, Theresa

Hans Jonas's Ethic of Responsibility: From Ontology to Ecology

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2013

Van Pelt Library. B3279.J664 M67 2013

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/upenn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3408784

 

Nir, David Nir

“A Critical Examination of the Jewish Environmental Law of Bal Taschchit –"Do Not Destroy",” The Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 18 (2006) 335-353

http://heinonline.org/HOL/PrintRequest?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/gintenlr18&div=16&id=343&print=section&format=PDFsearchable&submit=Print%2FDownload

 

Odenheimer, Micha

“Retrieving the Garden of Eden:  environmental organizations in Israel,” The Melton Journal 24 (1991) 12-14, 20

Katz Center - Periodicals B2. PERIODICAL

 

Rose, Aubrey, ed.

Judaism and Ecology

New York: Cassell, 1992

Available via BorrowDirect from Yale, Princeton and Columbia Universities

 

Schaffer, Arthur

“The agricultural and ecological symbolism of the four species of Sukkot,” Tradition 20 (1982) 128-142

Katz Center - Periodicals B1. BM1 .T7

Van Pelt Library. BM1 .T7

 

Schwartz, Richard H.

Who Stole My Religion? Revitalizing Judaism and Applying Jewish Values to Help Heal Our Imperiled Planet

Raleigh, SC: Lulu, 2011

Van Pelt Library. BM645.P64 S39 2016

 

Spicker, Stuart F., ed.

Organism, medicine, and metaphysics:  essays in honor of Hans Jonas on his 75th birthday, May 10, 1978

Dordrecht and Boston:  D. Reidel Pub. Co., 1978

Van Pelt Library. R723 .O73

 

Tal, Alon

“An imperiled promised land,” II:42-71 in, Torah of the Earth:  Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought (Woodstock,  VT:  Jewish Lights Publishing, 2000) ed. Arthur Waskow

Van Pelt Library. BM538.H85 T67 2000

 

Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, ed.

Judaism and ecology: created world and revealed word

Boston:  Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, 2002

Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.H85 J85 2002

 

Troster, Lawrence

“Caretaker of Citizen:  Hans Jonas, Aldo Leopold and the Development of Jewish Environmental Ethics,” pp. 373-396 in, The Legacy of Hans Jonas: Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life (Brill, 2008) edd. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Christian Wiese

Van Pelt Library. B3279.J664 L44 2008

 

Waskow, Arthur, ed.

Torah of the Earth: Exploring 4,000 Years of Ecology in Jewish Thought, two volumes

Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 2000

Van Pelt Library. BM538.H85 T67 2000

 

Wiese, Christian

The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions

Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover : Published by University Press of New England, 2007

Van Pelt Library. B3279.J664 W5413 2007

 

Wolff, K. A.

Bal Tashchit: The Jewish prohibition against needless destruction

Doctoral dissertation; Leiden:  Leiden University Medical Center, 2009

https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/14448/complete.final4.pdf?sequence=1

 

Yaffe, Martin D.

Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2002

Van Pelt Library. BM538.H85 J86 2001

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