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- Explores the biological aspect of Zionist thinking and culture
- Looks at the claims that Jews constitute a people with common biological roots
- Offers a biological perspective on an important political movement written by a trained geneticist
Part of the book series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences (HPTL, volume 19)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book offers a unique perspective on Zionism. The author, a geneticist by training, focuses on science, rather than history. He looks at the claims that Jews constitute a people with common biological roots. An argument that helps provide justification for the aspirations of this political movement dedicated to the return of the Jewish people to their homeland.
His study explores two issues. The first considers the assertion that there is a biology of the Jews. The second deals with attempts to integrate this idea into a consistent history. Both issues unfolded against the background of a romantic national culture of Western Europe in the 19th century: Jews, primarily from Eastern Europe, began to believe these notions and soon they took the lead in the re-formulation of Jewish and Zionist existence.
The author does not intend to present a comprehensive picture of the biological literature of the origins of a people and the blood relations between them. He also recognizes that the subject is emotionally-loaded. The book does, however, present a profound mediation on three overlapping questions: What is special or unique to the Jews? Who were the genuine Jews? And how can one identify Jews?This volume is a revised and edited English version of Tzionut Vehabiologia shel Hayehudim, published in 2006.
Keywords
- Anti-Semitism
- DNA Jewish
- Emancipation of the Jews
- Heredity Environment
- Genetic Identity
- Lateral Inheritance
- Jewish Biological Identity
- Racism Jewish
- Zionism
- Zionist Eugenics
- Jewishness
- Horizontal inheritence
- Polarization Jewishness
- Jewish Race
- Jewish Politics
- Jewish Population
- Jewish Anthropology
- religion and society
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Genetics & Program of History and Philosophy of Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Raphael Falk
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Zionism and the Biology of Jews
Authors: Raphael Falk
Series Title: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57345-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57344-1Published: 28 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86139-5Published: 12 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57345-8Published: 18 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2211-1948
Series E-ISSN: 2211-1956
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 234
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Biology, Religion and Society, Genetics and Population Dynamics, Regional and Cultural Studies, Biodiversity