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Jews and the Natural Sciences: Physics

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

Physics

  • Afilalo, Raphael and Hyman Schipper
    “The Kabbalistic Radla and Quantum Physics: Analogies and Differences”
    The Torah U-Madda Journal  16 (2012-13) 134-152
    Katz Center - Periodicals B1. BM538.S3 T68

  • Caspe, Abraham S.
    Fiziḳ
    New York, 1916
    Katz Center - Stacks. QC23 .C367 1916

  • Einstein, Albert     
    ʻAl torat ha-yaḥasiyut ha-peratit veha-kelalit. Hartsaʾah popularity
    Tel Aviv:  Devir, 1928
    Katz Center - Stacks. QC6 .E534 1928

  • Gimbel, Steven
    Einstein's Jewish Science.  Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion
    Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University 2012
    Van Pelt Library. QC173.55 .G55 2012

  • Goldfinger, Andrew
    Thinking about creation : eternal Torah and modern physics
    Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, c1999
    Katz Center - Stacks. BS651 .B76 1999

  • James, Ioan Mackenzie
    Driven to Innovate.  A Century of Jewish Mathematicians and Physicists                        
    Witney, England : Peter Lang, 2009
    Van Pelt Library. DS115 .J26 2009

  • Katsh, Abraham Isaac
    Torat ha-yaḥasut shel Aynshṭayn
    Tel Aviv : [s.n.], 1936
    Katz Center - Stacks. QC6 .K32 1936

  • Kostrinski, B.
    Fisiḳah :  ḳurs shiṭati shalem bi-shevil bate-sefer tikhoniyim
    Vilna :  [s.n.], 1922
    Katz Center - Stacks. QC23 .K67 1922

  • 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

  • Nathans, Solomon P.
    Populere erklerung fun Eynshteyn's relativitet teorye, mit a baylage iber khemye un astronomy
    New Rochelle, N. Y.: 1931
    Katz Center - Stacks. QC6 .N3 1931

  • Nelson, David W.
    Judaism, Physics and God.  Searching for Sacred Metaphors in a Post-Einstein World
    Woodstock, VT:  Jewish Lights Publishing, 2006
    Available via BorrowDirect from Princeton University

  • Pinker, Aron
    Sefer ha-atom : yesodot ha-fisiḳah ha-aṭomit ṿeha-garʻinit
    Jerusalem : R. Mas, 1964
    Katz Center - Miniatures Stacks. QC21 .P56 1964

  • Rabinowitz, Ẓevi, ha-Cohen
    Yesode ḥokhmat ha-ṭevaʻ ha-kelalit
    Vilna : A. T. Rozenḳrants, 1867-1876
    Katz Center - Special. Q162 .R33 1867
    Katz Center - Rare Book Room. Q162 .R33 1867

  • Schreiber, Aaron M.
    Quantum Physics, Jewish Law and Kabbalah.  Astonishing Parallels, Their Theological Implications
    Rivka and Aaron M. Schreiber Family Foundation, J Levine/Millenium,, 2009
    Available via BorrowDirect from Harvard or Yale University

    Shyfrin, Eduard
    FROM INFINITY to Man: The Fundamental Ideas of Kabbalah Within the Framework of Information Theory and Quantum Physics
    Available from Hebrew Union College Library via Inter Library Loan

  • Stahl, Hadrian
    “Physik,” pp. 401-419 in, Juden im deutschen Kulturbereich;  ein Sammelwerk, ed. Siegmund Kaznelson
    Berlin, Jüdischer Verlag 1959
    Katz Center - Stacks. DS135.G3 K35 1959

  • Unguru, Sabetai, ed.
    Physics, Cosmology and Astronomy 1300-1700:  tension and accommodation
    Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991
    Research Annex (LIBRA). Q174 .B67 v.126

  • Zonta, Mauro
    “The Influence of Hasdai Crescas’s Philosophy on some Aspects of Sixteenth-Century Philosphy and Science,” pp. 71-78 in, Religious Confessions and the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001) edd. Jürgen Helm and Annette Winkelmann
    Katz Center - Stacks. BL240.3 .R45 2001
    Van Pelt Library. BL240.3 .R45 2001

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