Cohen, Jeremy <br/><br/>
The Jewish Contribution to Civilization   Reassessing an Idea 

 - Oxford  Littman Library of Jewish Civilization  2008 
 - 245p 
<br/><br/> includes index and biblioraphy 
<br/><br/>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   
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781904113522  2667 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Jews-Civilization<br/>Civilization- Jewish Influence s<br/>Judaism-Relations
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>SS71  / C660