Menasseh ben Israel #2 - Jewish Amsterdam 17th Century
Award winning author Professor Steven Nadler
Vilas Research Professor and William H. Hay II Professor (Columbia, Ph.D. 1986)
Director of UW-Madison’s Institute for Research in the Humanities
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Author:
Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam (“Jewish Lives”, Yale, 2018)
Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge, 1999; second edition, 2018);
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2008);
The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century (2009), co-edited with Tamar Rudavsky;
A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age (Princeton, 2011)
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes (Princeton, 2013).
MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL
#2 MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL:17th CENTURY AMSTERDAM
• Amsterdam in 17thcentury – new community
• Refugees from Spain & Portugal
• Conversos went from Portugal to Antwerp to Amsterdam
• International merchants
• Imported Rabbis from other communities
• 3 Congregations
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