Jeremy Cohen holds the Abraham and Edita Spiegel Family Foundation Chair for European Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, where he served as Director of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center between 2002 and 2005. A specialist in the history of Jewish–Christian relations and three times a winner of the National Jewish Book Award, his various publications include The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism (1982); Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity (1999); and Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen (2007). Richard I. Cohen is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has co-curated two major art-historical exhibitions, one in New York (From Court Jews to the Rothschilds) and one in Paris (Le Juif Errant: Un Témoin du Temps). He is the author of Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe, which was the recipient of the Arnold Wischnitzer Prize for the best book in Jewish history (1999), and has edited and co-edited over fifteen books, many focusing on aspects of Jewish art and history. Two of his co-edited works are published by the Littman Library: The Jewish Contribution to Civilization: Reassessing an Idea (2007), and Insiders and Outsiders: Dilemmas of East European Jewry (2010).

• Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the TextIntroduction - Jeremy CohenPart I Formulating the Question1 ‘Jewish Contribution to Civilization’ and its Implications for Notions of ‘Jewish Superiority’ in the Modern Period - Richard I. Cohen2 Discourses of Civilization: The Shifting Course of Modern Jewish Motif - David N. Myers3 From Counterculture to Subculture to Multiculture: The ‘Jewish Contribution Then and Now - Moshe RosmanPart II Judaism and Other Cultures 4 Day of Gladness or Day of Madness? Modern Discussion of the Ancient Sabbath - Elliott Horowitz:5 ‘The Jewish Contribution’ to Christianity - David Berger6 Judaism, Islam, and Hellenism: The Conflict in Germany over the Origins of Kultur - Susannah Heschel7 From Sephardi to Oriental: The ‘Decline’ Theory of Jewish Civilization in the Middle East and North Africa - Daniel SchroeterPart III Jews, Germans, Americans8 From Admission Ticket to Contribution: Remarks on the History of an Apologetic Argument - Yaacov Shavit9 German–Jewish Literature and the Field of German–Jewish Studies - Mark H. Gelber10 Louis Finkelstein, Mordecai Kaplan, and American ‘Jewish Contributions to Civilization - David BialeBibliographyIndex

Jeremy Cohen holds the Abraham and Edita Spiegel Family Foundation Chair for European Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, where he served as Director of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center between 2002 and 2005. A specialist in the history of Jewish–Christian relations and three times a winner of the National Jewish Book Award, his various publications include The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism (1982); Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity (1999); and Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen (2007). Richard I. Cohen is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has co-curated two major art-historical exhibitions, one in New York (From Court Jews to the Rothschilds) and one in Paris (Le Juif Errant: Un Témoin du Temps). He is the author of Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe, which was the recipient of the Arnold Wischnitzer Prize for the best book in Jewish history (1999), and has edited and co-edited over fifteen books, many focusing on aspects of Jewish art and history. Two of his co-edited works are published by the Littman Library: The Jewish Contribution to Civilization: Reassessing an Idea (2007), and Insiders and Outsiders: Dilemmas of East European Jewry (2010).

• Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the TextIntroduction - Jeremy CohenPart I Formulating the Question1 ‘Jewish Contribution to Civilization’ and its Implications for Notions of ‘Jewish Superiority’ in the Modern Period - Richard I. Cohen2 Discourses of Civilization: The Shifting Course of Modern Jewish Motif - David N. Myers3 From Counterculture to Subculture to Multiculture: The ‘Jewish Contribution Then and Now - Moshe RosmanPart II Judaism and Other Cultures 4 Day of Gladness or Day of Madness? Modern Discussion of the Ancient Sabbath - Elliott Horowitz:5 ‘The Jewish Contribution’ to Christianity - David Berger6 Judaism, Islam, and Hellenism: The Conflict in Germany over the Origins of Kultur - Susannah Heschel7 From Sephardi to Oriental: The ‘Decline’ Theory of Jewish Civilization in the Middle East and North Africa - Daniel SchroeterPart III Jews, Germans, Americans8 From Admission Ticket to Contribution: Remarks on the History of an Apologetic Argument - Yaacov Shavit9 German–Jewish Literature and the Field of German–Jewish Studies - Mark H. Gelber10 Louis Finkelstein, Mordecai Kaplan, and American ‘Jewish Contributions to Civilization - David BialeBibliographyIndex

Jeremy Cohen holds the Abraham and Edita Spiegel Family Foundation Chair for European Jewish History at Tel Aviv University, where he served as Director of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center between 2002 and 2005. A specialist in the history of Jewish–Christian relations and three times a winner of the National Jewish Book Award, his various publications include The Friars and the Jews: The Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism (1982); Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity (1999); and Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen (2007). Richard I. Cohen is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has co-curated two major art-historical exhibitions, one in New York (From Court Jews to the Rothschilds) and one in Paris (Le Juif Errant: Un Témoin du Temps). He is the author of Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe, which was the recipient of the Arnold Wischnitzer Prize for the best book in Jewish history (1999), and has edited and co-edited over fifteen books, many focusing on aspects of Jewish art and history. Two of his co-edited works are published by the Littman Library: The Jewish Contribution to Civilization: Reassessing an Idea (2007), and Insiders and Outsiders: Dilemmas of East European Jewry (2010).

• Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the TextIntroduction - Jeremy CohenPart I Formulating the Question1 ‘Jewish Contribution to Civilization’ and its Implications for Notions of ‘Jewish Superiority’ in the Modern Period - Richard I. Cohen2 Discourses of Civilization: The Shifting Course of Modern Jewish Motif - David N. Myers3 From Counterculture to Subculture to Multiculture: The ‘Jewish Contribution Then and Now - Moshe RosmanPart II Judaism and Other Cultures 4 Day of Gladness or Day of Madness? Modern Discussion of the Ancient Sabbath - Elliott Horowitz:5 ‘The Jewish Contribution’ to Christianity - David Berger6 Judaism, Islam, and Hellenism: The Conflict in Germany over the Origins of Kultur - Susannah Heschel7 From Sephardi to Oriental: The ‘Decline’ Theory of Jewish Civilization in the Middle East and North Africa - Daniel SchroeterPart III Jews, Germans, Americans8 From Admission Ticket to Contribution: Remarks on the History of an Apologetic Argument - Yaacov Shavit9 German–Jewish Literature and the Field of German–Jewish Studies - Mark H. Gelber10 Louis Finkelstein, Mordecai Kaplan, and American ‘Jewish Contributions to Civilization - David BialeBibliographyIndex