Jewish tradition and the challenge of Darwinism /

Jewish tradition and the challenge of Darwinism / edited by Geoffrey Cantor and Marc Swetlitz. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. - xii, 260 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-249) and index.

Anglo-Jewish responses to evolution / Geoffrey Cantor -- Responses to evolution by Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist rabbis in twentieth-century America / Marc Swetlitz -- "Practically, I am a fundamentalist" : twentieth-century Orthodox Jews contend with evolution and its implications / Ira Robinson -- The impact of social Darwinism on anti-Semitic ideology in Germany and Austria, 1860-1945 / Richard Weikart -- The evolution of Jewish identity : Ignaz Zollschan between Jewish and Aryan race theories, 1910-1945 / Paul Weindling -- Zionism, race, and eugenics / Raphael Falk -- Crisis management via biblical interpretation : fundamentalism, modern Orthodoxy, and Genesis / Shai Cherry -- Torah and madda? : evolution in the Jewish educational context / Rena Selya -- Modern Orthodoxy and evolution : the models of Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik and Rabbi A.I. Kook / Carl Feit -- The order of creation and the emerging God : evolution and divine action in the natural world / Lawrence Troster.

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Evolution--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Evolution (Biology)--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Judaism and science.
Creation.


Earth--Age.

BM 538 .E8 J49 2006