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Jewish tradition and the challenge of Darwinism / edited by Geoffrey Cantor and Marc Swetlitz.

Contributor(s): Cantor, G. N, 1943- | Swetlitz, Marc, 1958-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006Description: xii, 260 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226092771 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0226092763 (alk. paper); 9780226092768 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226092775 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Evolution -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | Evolution (Biology) -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | Judaism and science | Creation | Earth (Planet) -- AgeDDC classification: 296.3/4 LOC classification: BM538.E8 | J49 2006Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.

Includes bibliographical references 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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