Table of Contents:
- vol. I. The biblical period / William Foxwell Albright
- The historical foundations of postbiblical Judaism / Elias J. Bickerman
- The period of the Talmud (135 B.C.E.-1035 C.E.)
- The European age in Jewish history (to 1648) / Cecil Roth
- The Jews of western Europe (from 1648) / Cecil Roth
- The problem of European Jewry (1939-1945) / Arieh Tartakower
- The American Jewish chronicle / Anita Libman Lebeson
- Jewish religious life and institutions in American (an historical study) / Moshe Davis
- The historical foundations of the rebirth of Israel / Ben Zion Dinur
- The Bible as a cultural monument / Robert Gordis
- The influence of Jewish law on the development of the common law / Jacob J. Rabinowitz
- On medieval Hebrew poetry / Shalom Spiegel
- The modern Renaissance of Hebrew literature / Hillel Bavli
- The mystical element in Judaism / Abraham J. Heschel
- Judaism and world philosophy / Alexander Altmann
- The contribution of Judaism to world ethics / Mordecai M. Kaplan
- Judaism and social welfare / Israel S. Chipkin
- vol. II. Hellenistic Jewish literature / Ralph Marcus
- Judeo-Arabic literature / Abraham S. Halkin
- Israel in Iran (A survey of Judeo-Persian literature) / Walter J. Fischel
- Yiddish literature / Yudel Mark
- The role of education in Jewish history / Julius B. Maller
- Jewish educational institutions / Simon Greenberg
- The Jewish contribution to music / Eric Werner
- Judaism and art / Rachel Wischnitzer
- The contribution of the Jews to medicine / Arturo Castiglioni
- Science and Judaism / Charles Singer
- Judaism and the democratic ideal / Milton R. Konvitz
- The influence of the Bible on English literature / David Daiches
- The influence of the Bible on European literature / Frederick Lehner
- Who are the Jews? / Melville J. Herskovitz
- Sources of Jewish statistics / Uriah Zevi Engelman
- Jewish migrations, 1840-1946 / Jacob Lestschinsky
- The economic structure of modern Jewry / Nathan Reich
- The Jewish community / Samuel C. Kohs
- The Jewish religion : its beliefs and practices / Louis Finkelstein
- Appendix. "What questions should be answered in the book on Judaism and the Jews?"