Jewish Science (disambiguation)

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The term Jewish Science may refer to any of the following:

• Wissenschaft des Judentums, the "science of Judaism," a critical-scholarly approach to understanding Jewish texts which flourished in the 19th century, and which underlies modern academic Jewish studies

• Jewish Science, founded by Morris & Tehilla Lichtenstein on 1921/2 taking cues from Christian Science.

• "Jewish Physics"(Jüdische Physik), a discriminatory word in Nazis era and antonym of "Deutsche Physik".

• Jewish Science is sometimes also used in reference to the secular scholarship of some Jews in the Middle Ages, such as Abraham bar Hiyya, ibn Ezra, Gersonides, Abraham Zacuto, etc.