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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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