Ashkenazi Jews in Mexico : ideologies in the structuring of a community / Adina Cimet. by Cimet, Adina, 1951-

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The 10,000 year explosion : how civilization accelerated human evolution / Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending. by Cochran, Gregory

Table of Contents: “…Overview: conventional wisdom -- The Neanderthal within -- Agriculture : the big change -- Consequences of agriculture -- Gene flow -- Expansions -- Medieval evolution : how the Ashkenazi Jews got their smarts.…”
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Risky Genes : Genetics, Breast Cancer and Jewish Identity. by Mozersky, Jessica

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Setting the scene: Ashkenazi Jews and genetic disease -- The "Ashkenazi BRCA mutations" -- Re-thinking the consequences of medical genetic research -- On being Jewish -- History, memory and the BRCA genes -- Future generations -- Conclusion.…”
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Don't Grow Old Holding Back the Years / BBC Worldwide Ltd.

Table of Contents: “…TA-65 (1:32) -- Progeria: Proteins Gone Wrong (3:04) -- Heredity and Aging (2:02) -- Ashkenazi Jews: Active Centenarians (3:19) -- Longevity Genes (3:20) -- Longevity Gene: Diabetes, Cholesterol, Alzheimer's Protection (2:30) -- Personal Perspectives on Aging (3:01) -- Risky Experiment: Mind Over Body (3:50) -- Results of Mind Over Body Experiment (2:42) -- Future of Scientific Interventions (2:33)…”
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Jews in the East European borderlands : essays in honor of John D. Klier / edited by Eugene M. Avrutin and Harriet Murav.

Table of Contents: “…Violence and the migration of Ashkenazi Jews to Eastern Europe / Shaul Stampfer -- Uses and abuses: "pogrom" in the Anglo-American imagination, 1881 -- 1919 / Sam Johnson -- Jews in the East European borderlands. …”
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The Jewish people story of survival / Two Cats Productions.

Table of Contents: “…Abraham: Father of the Children of Israel (2:38) -- Jewish History: Moses and the Passover (3:18) -- Jewish History: Ten Commandments and Torah (3:13) -- Unification of Jews (2:39) -- Jewish History: Babylonian Conquest (2:39) -- Jewish History: Roman Conquest of Jewish People (4:24) -- Jewish Oral Tradition: Talmud and Rabbinic Judaism (4:08) -- Talmud and Survival of Judaism (1:42) -- Threat to Jews: Christianity and Islam (3:48) -- Importance of Jewish Texts (3:10) -- Ashkenazi Jews (3:46) -- Middle Ages: Persecution of the Jews (4:13) -- Eastern European Jewish Communities (4:50) -- Zionism Movement (3:13) -- Jews in America/Jews in the USSR (2:16) -- Jews and the Holocaust (2:11) -- Creation of State of Israel (4:12) -- Survival of Judaism (5:10) -- Jewish Identity (2:23) -- What It Means to Be Jewish (4:45) -- Land of Israel: Return of the Jewish People (6:52) -- Abraham and Monotheism (4:34) -- Creation of Judaic Tradition (3:30) -- Historical Documents and Israelite Tradition (4:11) -- Jews in 18th-Century Russia (7:25) -- Bond of Judaism Throughout History (5:53)…”
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Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller : Portrait of a Seventeenth-Century Rabbi. by Davis, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…The Exile of a PhilosopherThe Flowering of Philosophical Study among Ashkenazi Jews; Joseph ben Isaac Halevi and Givat hamoreh; 'A Dwarf on the Shoulders of a Giant'; The Plague of 1611; The Exile of a Philosopher; 3. …”
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Microarray analysis : biochips and eradication of all diseases / Kal Renganathan Sharma. by Sharma, Kal Renganathan

Table of Contents: “…Genominomics and prospects -- Chapter objectives -- Human genome project completed -- Biochips -- Next-generation sequencing -- Applications of biochips -- Consanguinous marriages -- Ashkenazi Jews -- Cystic fibrosis -- Tuberculosis -- Cancer -- Sickle-cell anemia -- Small pox -- Paleo genomes -- Colony collapse disorder -- Schizophrenia -- Prenatal testing -- DNA for forensic investigation -- Genomic surveillance -- Bio-corrosion -- Human immunodeficiency syndrome -- Microarray analysis -- Pioneers in double-helix structure of DNA -- Genominomics, economics of sequencing, $1,000 -- Genome is within reach -- Genetically modified crops -- Glossary -- Summary.…”
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Microarray analysis : biochips and eradication of all diseases / Kal Renganathan Sharma. by Sharma, Kal Renganathan

Table of Contents: “…Genominomics and prospects -- Chapter objectives -- Human genome project completed -- Biochips -- Next-generation sequencing -- Applications of biochips -- Consanguinous marriages -- Ashkenazi Jews -- Cystic fibrosis -- Tuberculosis -- Cancer -- Sickle-cell anemia -- Small pox -- Paleo genomes -- Colony collapse disorder -- Schizophrenia -- Prenatal testing -- DNA for forensic investigation -- Genomic surveillance -- Bio-corrosion -- Human immunodeficiency syndrome -- Microarray analysis -- Pioneers in double-helix structure of DNA -- Genominomics, economics of sequencing, $1,000 -- Genome is within reach -- Genetically modified crops -- Glossary -- Summary.…”
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Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish refugees from Central Europe : survival, co-existence, and identity in a multi-ethnic city / Irene Eber. by Eber, Irene, 1929-2019

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Czernowitz at 100 : the first Yiddish language conference in historical perspective / edited by Kalman Weiser and Joshua A. Fogel.

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Writing Jewish culture : paradoxes in ethnography / edited by Andreas Kilcher and Gabriella Safran.

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