Jewish Eugenics

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Adams, Frederick. 1926-05-09. “Mother’s Day Sermon On Eugenics”.

Benedict, George. 1926-06-04. “On the Subject of Eugenics”

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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