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Jewish tradition and the challenge of Darwinism [electronic resource] / 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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

ISBN:

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Nat. Bib. No.: GBA671713 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Evolution--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Evolution (Biology)--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Judaism and science.
Creation.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Earth--Age.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BM538.E8 / J49 2006eb

Dewey Class. No.: 296.3/4