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Author	Schwartz, Daniel B., 1974-
Title	The first modern Jew : Spinoza and the history of an image / Daniel B. Schwartz.
Publication Info.	Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2012.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 11	199 S	IN LIBRARY

Description	xv, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-264) and index.
Contents	Ex-Jew, eternal Jew: early representations of the Jewish Spinoza -- Refining Spinoza: Moses Mendelssohn's response to the Amsterdam heretic -- The first modern Jew: Berthold Auerbach's Spinoza and the beginnings of an image -- A rebel against the past, a revealer of secrets: Salomon Rubin and the East European Maskilic Spinoza -- From the heights of Mount Scopus: Yosef Klausner and the Zionist rehabilitation of Spinoza -- Farewell, Spinoza: I. B. Singer and the tragicomedy of the Jewish Spinozist.
Subject	Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 -- Influence.
	Jews -- Identity.
	Jews -- Intellectual life.
	Jewish learning and scholarship -- History.
	Jewish philosophy.
Added Title	Spinoza and the history of an image
ISBN	9780691142913
	0691142912

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