The Jewish contribution to civilization : reassessing an idea / edited by Jeremy Cohen and Richard I. Cohen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-229) and index.

'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.