Ulrich Charpa and Ute Deichmann (eds.)
Jews and Sciences in German Contexts

Mohr Siebeck 2007

The authors examine the relationship between the cultural, religious and social situation of German Jews on the one hand and their scientific activities on the other. They discuss the sensitive question of the specificity of the approaches of Jewish scientists and draw attention to the debate concerning the relationship between Judaism and academic research, ranging from early 19th century theorising on science and Judaism to 20th century issues, e.g., the controversies on "Jewish" physics, mathematics etc. in the 1920s and 30s.

Content

Foreword by Ulrich Charpa and Ute Deichmann

Ulrich Charpa and Ute Deichmann
Introduction

Ute Deichmann
Empiricism and the Discreteness of Nature: Ferdinand Cohn (1821 - 1891), the Founder of Microbiology

Anthony S. Travis
German-Jewish Chemists and Raphael Meldola: The 1906 Jubilee Celebration for the Discovery of the first Aniline Dye

Moritz Epple
An Unusual Career between Cultural and Mathematical Modernism: Felix Hausdorff, 1868 - 1942

Ute Deichmann
"I detest his way of working". Leonor Michaelis (1875 - 1949), Emil Abderhalden (1877 - 1950), and Jewish and non-Jewish Biochemists in Germany

Raphael Falk
Three Zionist Men of Science: Between Nature and Nurture

Ulrich Charpa
Aaron Bernstein's "Nächster großer Reformator" - Einstein, Reform Judaism, and The Fries School

Nurit Kirsh
Genetic Studies of Ethnic Communities in Israel: A Case of Values-Motivated Research Work

Yael Hashiloni-Dolev
German and Israeli Attitudes towards Reproductive genetics and the Effect of Religion

Aharon Loewenstein
Pragmatic and Dogmatic Physics: Antisemitism in Nature, 1938
Appendix: J. Stark, "The Pragmatic and the Dogmatic Spirit in Physics"

Ruth Lewin Sime
No Return: Jewish Émigrés and German Scientists after Second World War

Simon Wenkel
Jewish Scientists in German-Speaking Academia: An Overview

Notes on Contributors, Index of Names, Index of Subjects

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