The Jewish Contribution to Civilization

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The Jewish Contribution to Civilization is written by Jeremy Cohen and published by Liverpool University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1800345402 (ISBN 10) and 9781800345409 (ISBN 13).

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 concept in modern Jewish culture and for modern Jewish studies.