Salvation through Spinoza : a study of Jewish culture in Weimar Germany /

Despite his reputation as a heretic, Baruch Spinoza was one of the major heroes of the Jewish cultural Renaissance in Weimar Germany. This study traces Weimar Jewry's infatuation with Spinoza as it was manifested in scholarship, the popular press, and novels. It tells of how Jews, who found the...

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Main Author: Wertheim, David J.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Brill, 2011.

Series: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series 21.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223226.

Subjects:

Spinoza, Benedictus de, > 1632-1677 > Influence.

Jews > Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century.

Jews > Germany > Identity > History > 20th century.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.