AMSTERDAM (JTA) – More than 350 years after this city’s Portuguese Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza and banned his writings for eternity, the philosopher’s books are for sale at the ...

Baruch Spinoza, born Bento de Spinoza in 1632 in Amsterdam, is one of the most radical philosophers in the West. He was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish descent who questioned religious dogma, ...

(JTA) — More than 350 years after this city’s Portuguese Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza and banned his writings for eternity, the philosopher’s books are for sale at the souvenir shop ...

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) has long appealed to skeptics and secularists. In the 18th century, “Spinozism” was a synonym for atheism. Shelley channeled him in his own arguments for atheism, George ...

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In the beginning was Uriel da Costa. Then came Baruch Spinoza. A mercurial recusant born in 1585 in Porto, Portugal, da Costa was a Catholic scion of prosperous Portuguese crypto-Jewish Conversos who ...

Rachel Kadish’s "The Weight of Ink" is like A.S. Byatt's "Possession," but with more seventeenth-century Judaism. The world is full of secret places. Behind a cupboard door, concealed by a secret ...

Throughout the course of his life, physicist Albert Einstein, the publisher of the theory of relativity, affirmed his belief in pantheism, a theological doctrine based on the work of 17th-century ...

Little known is the life of Michael Spinoza, Baruch Spinoza’s father, but he was a loyal son of Israel and follower of the Amsterdam rabbinate. On July 27, 1656, the leadership of the Sephardic ...