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The Text of Spinoza's Excommunication. On the 6th of the month of Av, 5416, July 27, 1656, the excommunication of Baruch de Spinoza was proclaimed from the Ark in the synagogue of Talmud Torah, the united congregation of the Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam. The complete version of the proclamation, written in Portuguese, is found in the Book of ...
Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated. Steven Nadler. HUMANITIES, September/October 2013, Volume 34, Number 5. Photo caption. Bento de Spinoza was a young merchant in Amsterdam, one of many Sephardic Jews in that city involved in overseas trade in the early 1650s. The specialty of his family’s firm, which he and his brother Gabriel had been running ...
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The Excommunication of Spinoza: Trouble and Toleration in the "Dutch Jerusalem" Steven Nadler University of Wisconsin-Madison Baruch de Spinoza, one of the most important philosophers of his time, and certainly the most radical, was excommunicated from Amsterdam's Sefardic synagogue at the age of twenty-four.
Jan 18, 2024 · The documentary Spinoza: 6 Reasons for the Excommunication of the Philosopher is playing at the New York Jewish Film Festival Wednesday, Jan. 17. Tickets and more information are available on the ...
Feb 5, 2024 · Buruma writes that Spinoza’s excommunication was like being “ ‘canceled,’ as people might now say,” but this was a retribution that a Twitter mob could only dream of.
Nov 24, 2016 · Every so often, calls have come from those who champion Spinoza as an intellectual hero for the excommunication to be reversed. In the 1920s, the Hebrew University historian, Joseph Klausner ...
Jun 29, 2001 · Baruch Spinoza. Bento (in Hebrew, Baruch; in Latin, Benedictus) Spinoza is one of the most important philosophers—and certainly the most radical—of the early modern period. His thought combines a commitment to a number of Cartesian metaphysical and epistemological principles with elements from ancient Stoicism, Hobbes, and medieval Jewish ...
