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Spinoza Unreformed

Allan Arkush

A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age ? by Steven Nadler Princeton, 304 pages, $29.95 The author of several well-received scholarly...

Enlightening Judaism

Allan Arkush

Faith and Freedom: Moses Mendelssohn’s Theological-Political Thought by Michah Gottlieb Oxford, 209 pages, $55 Jewish historians used to speak of Moses Mendelssohn, the late-eighteenth-century German Jewish thinker, as the...