Menasseh ben Israel #2 - Jewish Amsterdam 17th Century

Sparks of History · Jan 11, 2022 · 4m

Award winning author Professor Steven Nadler

Vilas Research Professor and William H. Hay II Professor (Columbia, Ph.D. 1986)

Director of UW-Madison’s Institute for Research in the Humanities

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Author:

Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam (“Jewish Lives”, Yale, 2018)

Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge, 1999; second edition, 2018);

The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2008);

The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century (2009), co-edited with…