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050 00 $aDS112$b.J583 2008
245 04 $aThe Jewish contribution to civilization :$breassessing an idea /$cedited by Jeremy Cohen and Richard I. Cohen.
260 $aOxford ;$aPortland, Or. :$bThe Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,$c2008.
300 $aviii, 245 p. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aLittman library of Jewish civilization
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [201]-229) and index.
505 0 $a'Jewish contribution to civilization' and its implications for notions of 'Jewish superiority' in the modern period / Richard I. Cohen -- Discourses of civilization : the shifting course of a modern Jewish motif / David N. Myers -- From counterculture to subculture to multiculture : the 'Jewish contribution' then and now / Moshe Rosman -- Day of gladness or day of madness? modern discussions of the ancient Sabbath / Elliott Horowitz -- The 'Jewish contribution' to Christianity / David Berger -- Judaism, Islam, and Hellenism : the conflict in Germany over the origins of kultur / Susannah Heschel -- From Sephardi to Oriental : the 'decline' theory of Jewish civilization in the Middle East and North Africa / Daniel Schroeter -- From admission ticket to contribution : remarks on the history of an apologetic argument / Yaacov Shavit -- German-Jewish literature and culture and the field of German-Jewish studies / Mark H. Gelber -- Louis Finkelstein, Mordecai Kaplan, and American 'Jewish contributions to civilization' / David Biale.
650 0 $aJews$xCivilization.
650 0 $aCivilization, Modern$xJewish influences.
650 0 $aJudaism$xRelations.
700 1 $aCohen, Jeremy,$d1953-
700 1 $aCohen, Richard I.
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