Jews and Science

Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor emeritus of the liberal arts and sciences and emeritus professor of psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over one hundred books, including Difference and Pathology, Seeing the Insane, Jewish Self-Hatred, and 'I Know Who Caused COVID-19': Pandemics and Xenophobia. For twenty-five years, Gilman was a member of the humanities and medical faculties at Cornell University, where he held the Goldwin Smith Professorship of Humane Studies. He also taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois Chicago, where he created the Humanities Laboratory. He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in North America, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, China, and New Zealand, and served as president of the Modern Language Association in 1995. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

FOREWORD EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION DEFINING SCIENCE; DEFINING JEWS Science, Imperialism, and Heteromasculinity in the Wissenschaft des Judentums, by Susannah Heschel Philosophers of Catastrophe: Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Proponents and Opponents of Objectivity in Science, by Steven Gimbel and Stephen Stern Medical History: A Blank Spot in Jewish Studies?, by Robert Juette Jewish Scientists and Scholars at the University of Vienna from the Late Habsburg Period until the Early Post-War Years, by Mitchell G. Ash HUMAN BIOLOGY: GENETICS IN THE NOW "Questions Remain": Racialism, Geneticism, and the Continuing Lure of Jewish Essentialism, by Mitchell B. Hart Science, Sovereignty, and Diaspora: Alternative Genealogies and DNA Research on Jewish Populations, by Yulia Egorova ISRAEL STUDIES AND SCIENCE The Fusion of Zionism and Science: The First Two Decades-and the Present Day?, by Amos Morris-Reich and Danny Trom Israel as a Laboratory in the Time of COVID-19, by Sander L. Gilman JEWS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Environmental History and Jewish Studies: Methodological Intersections and Opportunities, by Dean Phillip Bell Changing Climates: Zionist Medical Climatology in Palestine, 1897-1948, by Netta Cohen ISRAEL STUDIES AND SCIENCE Jews and Science: A Note, by David A. Hollinger Science and Judaism, by Roald Hoffmann ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE