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The Jewish Contribution to Civilization
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by Cecil Roth. 420 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Cecil Roth

Publisher:

   Harper & Brothers

Place of Publication:

  New York; London  

Publication Year:

  1940
Subjects:   Jews--Civilization
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books on: (Jews Civilization)  - 21739 results

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1.
Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities
Book by John R. Bartlett; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Jews--Civilization--To 70 A.D, Jews--History--168 B.C.-135 A.D, Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D, Judaism--History--Post-Exilic Period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
...bibliographical references (p.) and index. 1. Jews-History-586 B.C.-70 A.D. 2. Jews-History-168 B.C.-135 A.D. 3. Jews-Civilization-To 70 A.D. 4. Judaism-History-Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. 5. Hellenism. I. Bartlett, John R. (John Raymond...
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Jews in a Graeco-Roman World
Book by Martin Goodman; Clarendon Press, 1998
Subjects: Hellenism, Jews--Civilization--To70 A.D, Jews--Rome--Civilization, Judaism--History--Post-Exilic Period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
...Roman world / edited by Martin Goodman . Includes bibliographical references and index . 1. Jews-- Rome--Civilization. 2. Jews--Civilization--To 70 A.D. 3. Hellenism. 4. Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. I. Goodman...
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Jewish Civilization: The Jewish Historical Experience in a Comparative Perspective
Book by S. N. Eisenstadt; State University of New York Press, 1992
Subjects: Jews--Civilization, Jews--History
...pbk.: alk. paper 1. Jews Civilization. 2. Jews History. I. Title...ambivalent attitude among the Jews toward these civilizations. These poles shaped the...not fully shared by the Jews host civilization even if, politically speaking...
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The Jewish Contribution to Civilization
Book by Cecil Roth; Harper & Brothers, 1940
Subjects: Jews--Civilization
...human culture or civilization which Jews have not touched...substance of present-day civilization. In this, Jews, as individuals...Contributions to Civilization a work of Many...translations made by Jews in the medieval...
5.
Israel: Its Role in Civilization
Book by Moshe Davis; Harper, 1956
Subjects: Israel, Jews--Civilization
...BROTHERS NEW YORK ISRAEL: ITS ROLE IN CIVILIZATION Copyright, 1956, by The Jewish Theological...5. S. D. GOITEIN The Yemenite Jews in the Israel Amalgam 176...Contributors to "Israel: Its Role in Civilization" 323...
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journal articles on: (Jews Civilization)  - 1290 results

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1.
Jews in China: A Dialogue in Slow-Motion
Journal article by Ho Wan-Li; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 40, 2003
Subjects: Confucianism--History, Confucianism--Research, Jews--Research, Judaism--History, Judaism--Research
...numberless others demonstrate that the Jews living in Western Civilization endured the cruelest persecution over...that accepted it." (7) History shows a civilization that traditionally welcomed Jews and in which there never was any anti-Judaism...
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The Absent Presence: Enduring Images of Jews in United States Military History
Journal article by Joseph W. Bendersky; American Jewish History, Vol. 89, 2001
Subjects: American Jews, Jewish War Veterans of U.S.A., Jews, American, Military history--Social aspects, Retired military personnel--Demographic aspects, military personnel
...destroy the higher civilization based upon that...undesirable" eastern Jews were "ready to breed...decline of higher civilization. On the other hand, not to assimilate Jews would leave this...values of Christian civilization, which should be...violence against Jews. Nonetheless, while...
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American Jews and the Ambivalence of Middle-Classness
Journal article by Lila Corwin Berman; American Jewish History, Vol. 93, 2007
Subjects: American Jews--Demographic aspects, American Jews--Identification and classification, Jews, American--Demographic aspects, Jews, American--Identification and classification, Middle class--Demographic aspects, Middle class--Identification and classification, Middle classes--Demographic aspects, Middle classes--Identification and classification
...296-306. (9.) Albert Gordon, Jews in Suburbia (Boston: Beacon...in Max Lerner, America as a Civilization (New York: Simon and Schuster...Characteristics of American Jews," 29. (20.) Nathan Hurvitz...statements, see Lerner, America as a Civilization, 511; and Marshall Sklare...
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Reconceptualizing Religious Change: Ethno-Apostasy and Change in Religion among American Jews
Journal article by Benjamin T. Phillips, Shaul Kelner; Sociology of Religion, Vol. 67, 2006
Subjects: American Jews--History, American Jews--Religious aspects, American Jews--Social aspects, Jews, American--History, Jews, American--Religious aspects, Jews, American--Social aspects, Religion--Analysis, Religion--History, Religious beliefs--Analysis, Religious beliefs--History
...in Religion among American Jews. by Benjamin T. Phillips...secularizing march of Western civilization toward a sociology of religion...of Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews in the United States in 1990. Pp. 105-135 in Hispano-Jewish Civilization after 1492: Proceedings of...
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W.E.B. Du Bois and Jews: A Lifetime of Opposing Anti-Semitism
Journal article by Benjamin Sevitch; The Journal of African American History, 2002
Subjects: Antisemitism--History, Du Bois, W. E.B.--Political activity, Jews, American--Political activity, Lewis, David Levering
...of Germany linked Jews and African Americans...done for German civilization. It all reminds...is an attack on civilization, comparable only...campaigns against the Jews prompted Du Bois...for sake of white civilization. Color caste which...the plight of the Jews throughout the world...
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1.
Why the Jews Did or Did Not Reject Jesus
Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, February 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History (Book)--Book reviews
Why the Jews Did or Did Not Reject...the Irish Saved Civilization. The book gave new...gave us Western civilization. Thats the argument...being devoted to why Jews must continue to...a good thing for Jews. In his new book...of Christianitys civilizational achievements, although...
2.
Russian Jews and Post-Soviet Alternatives
Magazine article by Dmitry Shlapentokh; World and I, Vol. 15, April 2000
Subjects: Antisemitism--Russia, Jewish persecution, Jews, Russian--Persecutions, Russian Jews
...they survive as Jews. They understand...Napoleon (Western civilization). News about Napoleons...against American Jews and the West in...appeal of Western civilization. One of the spokesmen...rejection of a foreign civilization and its crass materialism...small fraction of Jews (those who live...
3.
Jews, Christians, and Civil Society
Magazine article by David Novak; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, February 2002
Subjects: Christianity and other religions--Judaism, Christians--Social aspects, Civil society--Religious aspects, Jews--Social aspects, Religion--Social aspects
...in the relationship between Jews and Christians since Western civilization narrowly escaped physical and...escaped physical annihilation, Jews have had to look at the world...some Christians have discovered Jews on the immediate horizon in...
4.
The Future of the Jews and Israel: An Optimistic Vision; an "Imagineered" Future Offers a Positive Outlook for Jews, Israel, the Diaspora, and Peace with the Muslim World, as Well as a Glimpse of What Measures Might Be Taken to Realize This Vision
Magazine article by Tsvi Bisk; The Futurist, Vol. 42, March 2008
Subjects: Future predictions, Jewish diaspora-Israel relations--Forecasts and trends, Jewish diaspora--Forecasts and trends, Jewish-Muslim relations--Forecasts and trends, Jews--Attitudes toward Israel, Jews--Forecasts and trends
...before have the Jews lived in a civilization so amenable to...rabbinical Judaism, the Jews adapted to the...modern global civilization has now given...FUTURE FOR THE JEWS AND THE WORLD...thriving new Jewish civilization. Although this...
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From Lies Immemorial (Cont.) (Criticism of Thesis That Jews Did Not Displace Arabs in Palestine) (Column)
Magazine article by Alexander Cockburn; The Nation, Vol. 239, October 13, 1984
Subjects: From Time Immemorial: the Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine (Book), Israel--History, Israeli history, Jews in Palestine--History, Jews--History, Palestinian Arabs--History, Peters, Joan
...Peterss From Time Immemorial that Jews did not displace Arabs in Palestine...of the lure of superior Puritan civilization. Such is the Peters thesis...that there were almost 60,000 Jews and 92,300 non-Jews in the area of Western Palestine...
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newspaper articles on: (Jews Civilization)  - 155 results

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Thanking Allah for Christians and Jews
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 7, 2005
...poisoned the masses against modern civilization. Islamic hatred of America...Palestinian campaign to kill the Jews. Even in Indonesia and Malaysia...bin Ladens jeremiads against civilization, is working now to establish...generosity of Christians and Jews, in America and elsewhere...
2.
State of 'Dhimmitude' Seen as Threat to Christians, Jews
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 30, 2002
...its well-known that Jews sought refuge under Muslim empires. Jews and Christians obtained greater freedom and abilities to express...with other monotheistic peoples? Muslims have showed their civilization has a better mechanism in which to do so because they give...
3.
A Crucial Civilization; Recounting Complex History of the German People
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 11, 2004
...perspective key elements of a crucial civilization in the heart of Europe; it...wholesale murder of European Jews. This has reduced, in the...tribes who shaped post-Roman civilization), was to be confirmed in later...Germanys relationship with Jews, hardly anything, the author...
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Papal Benediction
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 25, 2005
...issues in contemporary Western civilization has been the relationship between...the extinction of 6 million Jews by command of Adolf Hitler...with was the concept of the Jews as Gods "Chosen People." He...are still Israel, the way the Jews are still Jews and are still...
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Why a Racist, Sanguinary Doctrine Now Spreads Again
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 8, 2004
...what are euphemistically called in the mosques the "Crusaders," namely Christian civilization, regarded by the imamate as a far more formidable foe than the Jews. But thats for another time; we now have a book which needs the widest possible...
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encyclopedia articles on: (Jews Civilization)  - 19 results

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1.
Jews
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...History of the Jews (6 vol., tr. 1926; repr. 1956); A. L. Sachar, A History of the Jews (5th ed. 1965); C. Roth, The Jewish Contribution to Civilization (3d ed. 1956) and A Short History of the Jewish People (rev. ed. 1969); H. Feingold...
2.
Judaism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...than a God-centered religious civilization. Also part of contemporary...Diaspora; the unorganized secular Jews, who maintain an atheists or...culture; and those unorganized Jews who seek a religious life outside...M. M. Kaplan, Judaism as a Civilization (2d ed. 1957, repr. 1967...
3.
Arabs
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...include Arabic-speaking Jews (found chiefly in North...gradually a great Arab civilization was built up. Although...but Christians and Jews), the civilization reflected Arab values...the scope of their civilization and contributed greatly...
4.
Jacobs, Joseph
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...include Jews of Angevin England (1893), An Inquiry into the Sources of the History of the Jews in Spain (1894), and Jewish Contributions to Civilization (1919), an incomplete fragment. His Story of Geographical Discovery (1899) went through...
5.
Maccabees , Jewish Family
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Mac. 6; 7. Bibliography See E. Bickerman, The Maccabees (Eng. tr. 1947); A. Tcherikover, Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews (1959); D. J. Harrington, The Maccabean Revolt (1988). See also bibliography under Old Testament and...
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