Contents: Guy G. Stroumsa, ‘Introduction: In Search of a New Paradigm’; Ruth HaCohen, ‘Intercontextual Musical Currents and Performative Traditions in Twentieth-Century Palestine/Israel and Germany’; Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, ‘Compared to What? The Case of Literature’; Cedric Cohen Skalli, ‘The Motif of Anticipation and the First World War: Cohen, Benjamin, and Rosenzweig’; Youval Rotman, ‘Comparing Slavery: History and Anthropology’; Hans van Ess, ‘On the Value of Comparing Ancient China with Ancient European and Near Eastern Civilizations’; Ori Sela, ‘Challenging the Orientation of the Comparison: China–India Comparative History; Sarah Stroumsa, ‘Comparison as a Multifocal Approach: the Case of Arabic Philosophical Thought’; Jörg Rüpke, ‘Comparative Religion – Past and Present’; Christoph Markschies, ‘Globalized History of Religions in Late Antiquity? The Problem of Comparative Studies and the Example of Manichaeism’; Nili Cohen, ‘German Law in Israeli Courts’; Marc-Philippe Weller, ‘Jewish Cultural Identity before German Courts: Challenges to Comparatism’; Chris Thomale, ‘Comparative Comparativism: A Lawyer’s Epilogue’.