TY - JOUR
T1 - The 'First Letters' of Jacob Wahrman
AU - Morris-Reich, Amos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Author (s).
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Within the broader framework of the history of Jews, Germans, and science after the Holocaust, this article examines the tensions between Israeli and German scientists, paying particular attention to sciences that had been corrupted during the Nazi era. More specifically, the article studies the correspondence between German-born Israeli geneticist Jacob Wahrman and his German and Austrian colleagues, initiated as early as 1950 when Wahrman was still a PhD student. The article employs David Kettler's notion of 'first letters'as a theoretical framework for reading Wahrman's correspondence with German biologists and geneticists. In addition, the letters are brought into conversation with the genetic utopia promoted in the science fiction novels of Ram Moav,Wahrman s colleague in the Department of Genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ReadingWahrman andMoav together, the article focuses on what might be termed a post-Holocaustian'genetic fantasy'.
AB - Within the broader framework of the history of Jews, Germans, and science after the Holocaust, this article examines the tensions between Israeli and German scientists, paying particular attention to sciences that had been corrupted during the Nazi era. More specifically, the article studies the correspondence between German-born Israeli geneticist Jacob Wahrman and his German and Austrian colleagues, initiated as early as 1950 when Wahrman was still a PhD student. The article employs David Kettler's notion of 'first letters'as a theoretical framework for reading Wahrman's correspondence with German biologists and geneticists. In addition, the letters are brought into conversation with the genetic utopia promoted in the science fiction novels of Ram Moav,Wahrman s colleague in the Department of Genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ReadingWahrman andMoav together, the article focuses on what might be termed a post-Holocaustian'genetic fantasy'.
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U2 - 10.1093/leobaeck/ybv036
DO - 10.1093/leobaeck/ybv036
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AN - SCOPUS:85014894716
SN - 0075-8744
VL - 61
SP - 199
EP - 218
JO - Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook
JF - Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook
IS - 1
ER -