TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen, Jeremy
TI  - The Jewish Contribution to Civilization:  Reassessing an Idea
SN  - 9781904113522
U1  - SS71 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
KW  - Jews-Civilization
KW  - Civilization- Jewish Influence s
KW  - Judaism-Relations
N1  - 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
ER  -