The Jewish Contribution to Civilization Reassessing an Idea

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Formulating the Question Jewish Contribution to Civilization and its Implications for Notions of Jewish superiority in the Modern Period ............11 Discourses of Civilization: The shifting course of a Modern Jewish motif ........24 From counterculture to subculture to Multiculture : The Jewish Contribution then and now ..................36 2. Judaism and other Cultures Day of Gladness or Day of Madness? Modern discussion of the Ancient sabbath ................57 The Jewish contribution to Christianity ..........80 Judaism, Islam, and Hellenism : The conflict in Germany over the origins of Kultur ...........98 From Sephardi to Oriental : The Decline theory of Jewish civilization in the Middle east and NOrth Africa ..............125 3. Jews, Germans, Americans From admission ticket to contribution: Remarks on the history of an Apologetic Argument ..............151 German- Jewish literature and culture and the field of German-Jewish Studies ............165 Louis finkelstein, Mordecai kaplan, and American Jewish contributions to Civilization .............185