Jewish eugenics
By: John Glad
Publisher: Wooden Shore, L.L.C.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780897030052; 9780897030069
Subjects: Religious aspects; Jews; Eugenics
Description: Eugenics (human ecology) has always understood itself to be part of the struggle for human rights-- those of future generations. John Glad lays out the eugenic thrust of traditional Jewish culture and shows how Zionism itself was conceived as a grand eugenic plan. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 384-426) and indexes.

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Table of contents: title: Framing the topic; title: To be or not to be; title: Jewish intelligence; title: Silent holocaust; title: Human particularism; title: Jewish particularism; title: Infiltration theory (IT); title: A reassessment of vocabulary; title: Are Jews Jews?; title: Darwinism; title: Ethical implications of Darwinism; title: The anti-Darwinian rebellion; title: Judaism and science; title: "Jewish studies"; title: Zionism; title: Lamarckian egalitarianism; title: Anglo-American eugenicists; title: The popular image of eugenics; title: Eugenics and Hitler; title: The holocaust; title: Deconstructing the eugenics bashers; title: Eugenics in camouflage; title: Euthanasia; title: Abortion; title: Eugenics recovers; title: Israel and reproductive cloning; title: A paradoxical attitude; title: Some questions.