Menasseh ben Israel #7 - Who Was Queen Christina?
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
#7 What was Menessah’s Relationship with Queen Christina of Sweden?
• Christina of Sweden highly educated
• Possessed an extensive Library
• Menasseh interested in being her supplier of Judaica
• Procured Jewish works for Christina
• Relationship did not develop ad Menasseh hoped
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