All that you can't leave behind From: Jerusalem Post | Date: August 11, 2006| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

LAURIE SIEGEL
Jerusalem Post
08-11-2006
Headline: All that you can't leave behind
Byline: LAURIE SIEGEL
Edition; Up Front
Section: Books
Page: 30

Friday, August 11, 2006 -- Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity By Rebecca Goldstein. Schocken 304pp., $19.95

Rebecca Goldstein possesses life's trinity of great gifts: a thriving academic career, a MacArthur "genius" award and a pair of black tights with a giant run up the side.

This was true when I met her two years ago at a reading of her then-latest book at New York City's 92nd Street Y. As in her work, in life Goldstein is a ...

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