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Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jews banned philosopher Baruch Spinoza. 360 years later, could the ban be lifted?
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 ...
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Spanish civil servant skips work for 6 years to study Spinoza
(JTA) — A Spanish civil servant who collected a salary for at least six years without working used the time to become an expert on the writings of Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza, Spanish ...
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A Jewish expert on Spinoza was named ‘persona non grata’ in Amsterdam’s synagogue and library
“You have devoted your life to the study of Spinoza’s banned works and the development of his ideas,” Serfaty wrote to Yitzhak Melamed. (JTA) — More than 350 years after Baruch Spinoza was ...
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The Philosophical Case for a Four-Day Workweek
Blending philosophy with popular culture, with references to Fight Club, Breaking Bad, and more, The Double Shift is an ...
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The Spinoza scholar who was banned from Amsterdam synagogue is now invited to visit it
Melamed sought access to the synagogue to make a documentary about Spinoza, whom the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam excommunicated in 1656 for writings that it deemed heretic.
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Spinoza's Challenge to Jewish Thought: Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy
Key works about Spinoza’s critical role in the formation of modern Jewish identity Arguably, no historical thinker has had as varied and fractious a reception within modern Judaism as Baruch (Benedict ...
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Israeli documentary ‘Outsider. Freud’ looks at the life of a genius
B. Yehoshua. Qedar also produced a recent documentary about Baruch Spinoza, Spinoza: 6 Reasons for the Excommunication of the Philosopher, and said that he was offered the chance to make a trilogy ...