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Barukh Spinoza - Founder of the ACLU? Seeing in the Excommunicated
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Forward
05-23-1997
Barukh Spinoza -- Founder of the ACLU? Seeing in the Excommunicated Philosopher the Roots of Liberalism
Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity
By Steven Smith
Yale University Press
288 pages, $30.
No figure in Jewish history has enjoyed so varied and rich an afterlife as the great 17th-century philosopher and heretic, Barukh Spinoza. For someone who denied the very existence of the afterlife, this is a delicious irony. A son of Marranos who escaped the Inquisition, and a prodigal student of the great Amsterdam rabbis Menasseh ben Israel and Saul Morteira, ...
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