Jewish Eugenics

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Glad, John. 2007. Review of Cantor and Swetlitz, editors, Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinishm (2006) appeared in The Mankind Quarterly 48(2):209-213 (Winter 2007).

Glad, John. 2007. Review of Michael B. Hart, The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine Cambridge University Press, 2007 appeared in The Mankind Quarterly 48(2):217-221 (Winter 2007).

Laski, Harold J. 1910. “The Scope of Eugenics.” Reprinted in The Mankind Quarterly 48(2):191-202 (Winter 2007).

Galton, Sir Francis. 1910-07-29. “Eugenics and the Jew.” Reprinted in The Mankind Quarterly 48(2):205-208 (Winter 2007).

Lipphardt, Veronika. 2006. ““Jewish Eugenics”? German Scientists with Jewish Background and their Notions of Eugenics, 1900-1935” (in German). See also the page which links to this article: Historisches Seminar: Tagung Eugenik (in German)

Mandelstam, Osip. 1932. Poem about Lamarck (PDF).

Galton, Sir Francis. 1910-07-29. “Eugenics and the Jew.” From the The Jewish Chronicle. [MS Word] [PDF] [HTML]

Karpel, Dalia. 2006-10-20. “Culture club”, from Haaretz. On Raphael Falk, an Israeli geneticist opposed to eugenics.

Glad, John. 2004-06-09. “History, Eugenics, and the Jews.” From the Jewish Press.

Hashiloni-Dolev, Yael. 2006. “Between Mothers, Fetuses and Society: Reproductive Genetics In the Israeli-Jewish Context” (PDF)

Glad, John. 2006. Review of Seymour W. Itzkoff, Fatal Gift: Jewish Intelligence and Western Civilization (Jewish Press)

Glad, John. 2003.Review of Susan Martha Kahn, “Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception In Israel” (PDF)

Feldman, William M. 1939. “Ancient Jewish Eugenics” (Medical Leaves, pp. 28-37) (PDF)

Laski, Harold J. 1910. “The Scope of Eugenics” (Westminster Review, 1910-07, pp. 25-34) with a new introduction by John Glad (PDF)

MacDonald, Kevin. 1994. Education and Eugenics Among Jews (PDF)(MS Word)

Reichler, Max. 1916. “Jewish Eugenics”

Traubmann, Tamara. 2004. “‘Do not have children if they won’t be healthy!’” (Haaretz)

Traubman, Tamara and Reznick, Ran. 2005. “A case of almost eugenics” (Haaretz)

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