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Jews and the Natural Sciences: Nutrition

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

Nutrition

  • Boll, Ḥayim Meʼir ben Mordekhai
    Ḳunṭres Niḳur ḥeleḳ ha-penimi :  neḳudot retsiniyot ha-nitsrakhin le-khol bet Yiśraʼel she-lo yukhshelu ba-akhilat ḥelev, isure karet raḥ. l. : berur ʻinyan ḥelev : limud melekhet ha-niḳur
    Jerusalem, 1981
    Katz Center - Stacks Box 1. BM720.S6 K86 1981

  • Decter, Avi Y. and  Juliana Ochs Dweck editors
    Chosen food : cuisine, culture, and American Jewish identity
    Baltimore, MD : The Jewish Museum of Maryland, 2011
    Katz Center - Stacks. GT2853 . U5C4.5 2011
     
  • Deutsch, Jonathan and Rachel D. Sacks
    Jewish American Food Culture
    Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008
    Van Pelt. GT2853.U5 D48 2008
     
  • Diner, Hasia R.
    Hungering for America :  Italian, Irish, and Jewish foodways in the age of migration
    Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001
    Katz Center - Stacks.  GT2853.U5 D54 2001
    Van Pelt Library. GT2853.U5 D54 2001
    Kislak Center for Special Collections - Blank Collection. GT2853.U5 D54 2001
     
  • Diner, Hasia R.
    “Road food: Jewish peddlers during the great jewish migration and their new world customers,” Quaderni storici 51 (2016) 23-50
    Van Pelt Library. DG975.M4 Q92
     
  • Goldstein, Maurice
    Dietary barbarism; a scientific study and interpretation of the Jewish dietary laws
    Brooklyn:  printed by Vilschick Brothers, 1926
    Katz Center - Stacks Box 1. RM221.J6 G6 1926
     
  • Greenspoon, Leonard J., Ronald A. Simkins and Gerald Shapiro, edd.
    Food and Judaism
    Omaha, NE : Creighton University Press ; Lincoln, NE : Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press, c2005
    Katz Center – Stacks.  BM710 .F62 2002
    Van Pelt - Non Circulating. BM710 .F62 2002
     
  • Guggenheim, Yechiel Karl
    Tezunat ha-adam
    Yerushalayim : Magnes, 1964
    Katz Center – Stacks.  QP141 .G84 1964
     
  • Guggenheim, Yechiel Karl
    ha-Tezunah mi-yeme-ḳedem ṿe-ʻad yamenu  madaʻ-ha-tezunah be-hitpatḥuto
    Yerushalayim : Y.L. Magnes, 1985
    Katz Center - Stacks. TX353 .G844 1985
     
  • Helman, Anat editor
    Jews and Their Foodways
    Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2015
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM729.F66 J49 2015
     
  • Jiggetts, J. Ida
    Religion, diet, and health of Jews
    New York, Bloch Pub. Co., 1949
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM710 .J5 1949
     
  • Kraemer, David C.
    Jewish eating and identity through the ages
    New York : Routledge, c2007
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM710 .K73 2007
    Van Pelt Library. BM710 .K73 2007
     
  • Levinson, Yaakov
    The Jewish Guide to Natural Nutrition
    Jerusalem ; New York, NY :Feldheim Publishers, 1995
    Available via BorrowDirect from Cornell University
     
  • Mishulow, A. B.
    Gezunṭ un shpayz
    New York :  The Better Health and Correct Eating Institute, 1926
    Katz Center - Stacks. TX392 .M68 1926
     
  • Rosenblum, Jordan D.
    The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016
    Available via BorrowDirect from Princeton University
     
  • Rosenblum, Jordan D.
    Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism
    Cambridge ; New York :  Cambridge University Press, 2010
    Van Pelt Library. BM710 .R615 2010
     
  • Rosenblum, Jordan D., Aaron S. Gross and Jody Myers, edd
    Feasting and Fasting :  The History and Ethics of Jewish Food
    New York, NY :  New York University Press, 2020
    de Gruyter eBooks Complete  
    https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9977872201003681
     
  • Schwartz, Richard H.
    Judaism, health, nutrition and vegetarianism
    Marblehead, MA. : Micah Publications, 1993
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM538 V4.3 S3.9 1993
     
  • Shatenstein, Bryna, Parviz Ghadirian & Jean Lambert
    “Influence of the Jewish religion and Jewish dietary laws (Kashruth) on family food habits in an ultra‐orthodox population in Montreal,” Ecology of Food and Nutrition 31 (1993) 27-44
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03670244.1993.9991348
     
  • Yanklowitz, Shmuly, ed.
    Kashrut and Jewish Food Ethics
    Boston :  Academic Studies Press, 2019
    Van Pelt Library. BM710 .K2646 2019

     

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