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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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