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Jews and the Natural Sciences: Chemistry

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

Chemistry

Amos, L. and J.T. Finch

“Aaron Klug and the revolution in biomolecular structure determination,” Trends in Cell Biology 14 (2004) 148–152

Online periodical

 

Chayut, Michael

“From Berlin to Jerusalem: Ladislaus Farkas and the Founding of Physical Chemistry in Israel,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological

Sciences 24 (1994) 237-263

JSTOR Arts and Sciences VIII

 

Clark, Ronald W.

The Life of Ernst Chain: Penicillin and Beyond.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985

Van Pelt Library. QP511.8.C44 C57 1985

 

Ferrario, Gabriele

“The Jews and Alchemy:  Notes for a Problematic Approach,” pp. 19-29 in, Chymia: Science and Nature in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010) ed. Miguel López Pérez, Didier Kahn, and Mar Rey Bueno

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/upenn-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1165608

Freudenthal, Gad       “Alchemy in Medieval Jewish Cultures: A Noted Absence” pp. 343–358 in, Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011) ed. Gad Freudenthal

Van Pelt Library. Q128 .S35 2011

 

Ginsburg, David

“Ernst David Bergmann,” Israel Journal of Chemistry 1 (1963) 323-350

Chemistry Library - Periodicals. QD1 .I927

 

Hershko, Avram and Aaron Ciechanover

“Mechanisms of intracellular protein breakdown,” Annual Review of Biochemistry 51 (1982) 335–364

Chemistry Library - Books. QP501 .A7

 

Hoffmann, Roald and Shira Leibowitz-Schmidt

Old Wine, New flasks. Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition.

New York: Freeman and Co., 1997

Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 H64 1997

 

Hollinger, David A.

Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996

Katz Center - Stacks. E184.J5 H646 1996

Van Pelt Library. E184.J5 H646 1996

 

Idel, Moshe

“The origin of alchemy according to Zosimus and a Hebrew parallel,” Revue des études juives 145 (1986) 117-124

Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .R45

Van Pelt Library. DS101 .R45

https://secure.peeters-leuven.be/POJ/viewpdf.php?ticket_id=5a6e076c18713

 

Ḳanṭoroṿits, P.

Torat ha-ḥimiyah : ṿe-yiḥusah el ḥaroshet ha-maʻaśeh

Ṿarsha : N. Soḳoloṿ, 1901

Katz Center - Processing Non-Circulating. In process

 

Kohn, Lassar

ha-Ḥemyah be-ḥaye yom yom b| shenem ʻas̕ar maʾamarim ʻim tsiyurim

Warsaw, 1902

Katz Center - Stacks. QD37 .K656 1902

 

Langerman, Y. Tzvi

“An Alchemical Treatise Attributed to Joseph Solomon Delmedigo,” Aleph 13 (2013) 77-94

Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 A447

Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 A447

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/505931/pdf

 

Mentgen, Gerd

“Jewish Alchemists in Central Europe in the Later Middle Ages:  Some New Sources,” Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 9 (2009) 345-352

Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 A447

Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 A447

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/317026/pdf

 

Nachmansohn, David

German-Jewish Pioneers in Science 1900-1933:  highlights in atomic physics, chemistry, and biochemistry

New York:  Springer, 1979

Van Pelt Library. QD21 .N33

 

Patai, Raphael

The Jewish Alchemists:  a history and source book

Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1994

Katz Center - Stacks. QD24.A2 P38 1994

Van Pelt Library. QD24.A2 P38 1994

https://muse.jhu.edu/book/34112

 

Patai, Raphael

“Maria the Jewess--founding mother of alchemy,” Ambix: the journal of the Society for the Study of Alchemy and Early Chemistry

 29.3 (1982) 177-92

Research Annex (LIBRA). QD1 .A385

 

Patai, Raphael

“Sephardic Alchemists,” pp. 235-244 in, From Iberia to Diaspora: Studies in Sephardic History and Culture (Leiden:  Brill, 1999) edd. Yedida K. Stillman and Norman A. Stillman

Katz Center - Stacks. DS134 .F76 1999

Van Pelt Library. DS134 .F76 1999

 

Politzer, Charlotte

“Chemie,” pp. 429-450 in, Juden im deutschen Kulturbereich;  ein Sammelwerk, (Berlin, Jüdischer Verlag 1959) ed. Siegmund Kaznelson

Katz Center - Stacks. DS135.G3 K35 1959

 

Rabinowitz, Hirsch Meir

Otsar ha-ḥokhmah ṿeha-madaʻ : ...yesode ḥokhmat ha-ṭevaʻ ha-kelalit ṿe-gam yediʻot ḥaroshet ha-maʻaśeh, ṿi-yediʻot madaʻim shonim

Vilna : [s.n.], 1876

Katz Center - Stacks. QC21 .R2 1876

 

Richards, Theodore W.

The scientific work of Morris Loeb

Cambridge, Harvard university press, 1913

Katz Center - Stacks. QD3 .L7 1913

 

Shafrir, E.

Aaron Klug--a pioneer of crystallographic electron microscopy,” Israel Journal of Medical Sciences 30 (1994) 734

Pennsylvania Hospital Medical Library

 

Stoltzenberg, Dietrich.

Fritz Haber. Chemiker, Nobelpreisträger, Deutscher, Jude

Weinheim: Verlag Chemie, 1994

Van Pelt Library. QD22.H15 S76 1994

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