The Jewish Contribution to Civilization
Reassessing an Idea
Jeremy Cohen & Richard I. Cohen

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This book investigates the idea of a distinct ‘Jewish contribution to civilization’ as it has been understood from the seventeenth century to the present. Offering a broad spectrum of academic opinion, it explores the role that the concept has played in Jewish self-definition and how it has influenced the history of the Jews and of others. It also considers the centrality of the question in modern Jewish culture and for modern Jewish studies.

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David Berger. David Biale, Jeremy Cohen, Richard I. Cohen, Mark Gelber, Susannah Heschel, Elliott Horowitz, David N. Myers, Moshe Rosman, Daniel Schroeter, Yaacov Shavit

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David Berger,Professor of Jewish History, Yeshiva University
David Biale, Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies, University of California, Davis
Jeremy Cohen, Abraham and Edita Spiegel Family Foundation Chair for European Jewish History, Tel Aviv University
Richard I. Cohen, Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in French Jewry Studies, Department of Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mark H. Gelber, Professor of Comparative Literature and German-Jewish Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva
Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College
Elliott Horowitz, Associate Professor of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University, and co-editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review
David N. Myers, Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Moshe Rosman, Professor of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University
Daniel Schroeter, Teller Family Chair in Jewish History, University of California, Irvine
Yaacov Shavit, Professor of Jewish History, University of Tel Aviv

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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 holds the Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in French Jewish Studies and has served as the Academic Head of Revivim, the honours programme at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the training of Jewish studies teachers. He is the author of The Burden of Conscience: French-Jewish Leadership during the Holocaust and Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe, and among books he has edited are The French Revolution and Its Historical Impact and Art and History. He has co-curated and co-edited (with Vivian Mann) From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600-1800 and (with Laurence Sigal) Le juif errant: un témoin du temps.

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