TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of Illustrations ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Note on Translations and Romanization xvii
Introduction 1
Spinoza's Jewish Modernities
Chapter 1: Ex-Jew, Eternal Jew: 15
Early Representations of the Jewish Spinoza
Chapter 2: Refining Spinoza: 35
Moses Mendelssohn's Response to the Amsterdam Heretic
Chapter 3: The First Modern Jew: 55
Berthold Auerbach's Spinoza and the Beginnings of an Image
Chapter 4: A Rebel against the Past, A Revealer of Secrets: 81
Salomon Rubin and the East European Maskilic Spinoza
Chapter 5: From the Heights of Mount Scopus: 113
Yosef Klausner and the Zionist Rehabilitation of Spinoza
Chapter 6: Farewell, Spinoza: 155
I. B. Singer and the Tragicomedy of the Jewish Spinozist
Epilogue: 189
Spinoza Redivivus in the Twenty-First Century
Notes 203
Bibliography 247
Index 265 Return to Book Description File created: 4/25/2013 | 
