Jews and Sciences in German Contexts

In diesem Sammelband wird die Beziehung zwischen der kulturellen, religiösen und sozialen Situation deutschsprachiger Juden zu deren wissenschaftlicher Tätigkeit untersucht. Die Autoren diskutieren die sensible Frage nach den vermeintlich spezifisch 'jüdischen' Arbeitsweisen jüdischer Forscher und untersuchen die Debatten um das Verhältnis von Judentum und wissenschaftlicher Forschung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert.I. Introduction by the Editors: Problems, Phenomena, Explanatory Approaches
II. Research practices, achievements, contexts
Ute Deichmann: Empiricism and the Discreteness of Nature. Ferdinand Cohn (1828-1898), the Founder of Microbiology - Anthony S. Travis: German-Jewish Chemists and Raphael Meldola. The 1906 Celebrations 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
III. The impact of religious and ideological attitudes
Raphael Falk: Three Zionist Men of Science. Between Nature and Nurture. Salaman, Bychowski, Bodenheimer - Ulrich Charpa: Aaron Bernstein's 'nächster großer Reformator'. Einstein, Reform Judaism, and the Fries School - Nurit Kirsch: 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
IV. Anti-Semitism in academia
Aharon Loewenstein: Dogmatic and Pragmatic Physics. Stark on Aryans, Jews and White Jews in Physics (appendix: Johannes Stark, »The Dogmatic and Pragmatic Spirit in Science«, 1938) - Ruth Sime: No Return: Jewish Émigrés and German Scientists after World War II
V. Simone Wenkel: Prosopographical Data: An Overview