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Jewish Politics in Spinoza's Amsterdam (Hardcover)
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Jewish Politics in Spinoza's Amsterdam (Hardcover)
Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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This book untangles a web of ideas about politics, religion, exile,
and community that emerged at a key moment in Jewish history and
left a lasting mark on Jewish ideas. In the shadow of their former
member Baruch Spinoza's notoriety, and amid the aftermath of the
Sabbatian messianic movement, the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of
seventeenth-century Amsterdam underwent a conceptual shift that led
them to treat their self-governed diaspora community as a
commonwealth. Preoccupied by the question of why and how Jews
should rule themselves in the absence of a biblical or messianic
sovereign state or king, they forged a creative synthesis of
insights from early modern Christian politics and Jewish law and
traditions to assess and argue over their formidable communal
government. In so doing they shaped a proud new theopolitical
self-understanding of their community as analogous to a Christian
state. Through readings of rarely studied sermons, commentaries,
polemics, administrative records, and architecture, Anne Albert
shows that a concentrated period of public Jewish political
discourse among the community's leaders and thinkers led to the
formation of a strong image of itself as a totalizing, state-like
entity-an image that eventually came to define its portrayal by
twentieth-century historians. Her study presents a new perspective
on a Jewish population that has long fascinated readers, as well as
new evidence of Jewish reactions to Spinoza and Sabbatianism, and
analyses the first Jewish reckoning with modern western political
concepts.
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