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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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