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Index
Acosta, Uriel, 26–27, 28, 71, 91, 107–8
Adventures of Immanence, The (Yovel), 193
Against Mendelssohn’s Accusations (Jacobi), 47
agape, 62
Albo, Joseph, 75, 222n44
Alexander, Samuel, 137
Amsterdam Sephardic community, 6, 16–19, 26, 57, 138–39, 207n20
antinomianism, 60
antisemitism, Enlightenment, 7
Arnauld, Antoine, 15
Arukh (Nathan ben Yehiel), 221n28
Ascher, Saul, 60, 212n15, 215n18
assimilation, 194
Auerbach, Berthold, 65–79, 86, 101, 200, 214n8, 218n89; Dichter und Kaufmann: Ein Lebensgemälde aus der Zeit Moses Mendelssohn’s, 218n84; Judaism and Recent Literature, 67–70, 76–77; Spinoza, a Historical Novel, 56–58, 70–76, 101, 217n60, 218n82; Spinoza: A Thinker’s Life, 79, 217n60
Auslander, Shalom, 201
Autobiography (Maimon), 159
autoemancipation, 116–17
Baal Shem, 158, 238n13
Baer, Yitzhak F., 229n15
Baruch Spinoza: His Life, Works, and Philosophy (Zeitlin), 126–27, 131
Baruch Spinoza: His Philosophy, Biblical Criticism, Political Theory, and Import for the Development of Human Thought (Stupnicki), 157–58
Baruch Spinoza and His Time: A Study in Philosophy and History (Sokolow), 111, 128–29
Basnage, Jacques, 31
Bayle, Pierre, 20, 23–28, 209n41, 209nn36–37
Beiser, Frederic
k, 61
Ben-Gurion, David, 106, 124, 147–51, 149
Berdichevsky, Micah Josef, 106–7, 130–32, 133
Bergmann, Hugo, 114
Bergson, Henri, 137
Berlin, Jews in, 64
Bernstein, Hayim Yehiel, 161–62
Berthold Auerbach: Der Mann, sein Werk—sein Nachlaß (Bettelheim), 215n35
Bet Shpinozah, 148–49, 240n43
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (Goldstein), 195, 199–200
Bettelheim, Anton, 215n35
Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 113, 135, 146, 166
Bildung, 62, 63
Bilu, 231n40
Book of Beliefs and Opinions, The (Rav Saadia Ga’on), 124
Book of Zionism, The (Dinur), 123–24
Börne, Ludwig, 64
Bredenburg, Johannes, 206n15
Brenner, Yosef Haim, 126, 131–32
Brunschvicg, Léon, 137
Buber, Martin, 129
Budde, Johann Franz, 36
Cahan, Ya’akov, 113
Candide (Voltaire), 39
Cartesianism, 28, 37
Center for Cultural Judaism, 190–91
Certamen philosphicum (Orobio de Castro), 17
Chajes, Tsvi Hirsch, 99
Christianity, Jews converting to, 64
circumcision, 119
Cohen, Hermann, 136, 142, 234n92
Cohen, Morris Raphael, 229n23
Colerus, Johannes, 20, 23–28, 208n35, 209n52
Comments on the Teachings of Spinoza (Zeitlin), 167–68
Compendium of Hebrew Grammar (Rubin), 83
Concerning the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Herr Moses Mendelssohn (Jacobi), 46–47
Confucian theology, 28
Cranz, August Friedrich, 43
Crescas, Hasdai, 142
da Costa, Uriel. See Acosta, Uriel
da Fonseca, Hakham Isaac Aboab, 27
da Silva, Salomon, 73–74, 78, 91–92
Darwin, Charles, 160
Das Judenthum (Mendelssohn), 217n78
de Barrios, Daniel Levi, 22
de Prado, Juan, 19, 22, 208n31
De tribus impostoribus (Kortholt), 206n8
deification of material world, 30
Der Spinozismus im Jüdenthumb (Wachter), 28–32
Dernburg, Joseph, 77–78
Descartes, René, 25, 26, 39–40
Deus sive Natura, 28, 61, 103, 136, 200
Di Khalyastre (journal), 165, 240n47
Dialoghi d’amore (Ebreo), 145
Diaspora, 118
Dictionaire historique et critique (Bayle), 23, 26–27, 71
Dinur, Ben-Zion, 123–24, 149
Dohm, Christian, 41–42
Dorman, Menahem, 220n18
Dutch Collegiants, 16
Dutch Reformed Church, 16
Ebreo, Leone, 142, 145
Edict of Toleration (1782), 42
Education of Humankind, The (Lessing), 68
Einstein, Albert, 148, 228n9
election of Jews, 17, 118, 123
“End of Jewish Secularism, The” (Howe), 189
Enlightenment; interpretations of, 9
Ethics (Spinoza), 16, 31, 48, 62, 99–100; Klatzkin’s translation, 127–28; Nathanson’s rendition, 162; Rubin’s translation, 109–11; Yovel’s translation, 195
excommunication of Spinoza, 6, 17–19, 26, 113–16, 141, 146, 147–53, 195–96, 206n18
Exemplar humanae vitae (da Costa), 26
Feiner, Shmuel, 84, 102, 220n18
Finkelstein, Leo, 162–63
Fons vitae (Ibn Gabirol), 145
“Forerunners of Zionism, The,” 229n18
Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir (Auslander), 201
Foundation Stone (Krochmal), 99
Fränkel, David, 58–59, 63–65, 215n29
Frederick II, 39
“Freedom and Heresy” (Hebrew Man), 132
Freudenthal, Jakob, 162
Freud’s Moses (Yerushalmi), 12
Frischmann, David, 226n107
Gabirol, Solomon ibn, 82
Galician Haskalah. See Haskalah movement
“Galuth” and “Ghetto,” 139–40
Gans, Eduard, 64, 87
Gebhardt, Carl, 138–40
Geiger, Abraham, 69–70, 77–78, 86, 89–90, 216n52
gematria, 226n97
George, Manfred, 148
German Idealism, 47, 61, 143, 216n53
German Jewish culture, 55, 58–60, 63, 84, 214n5, 216n43, 216n51
German Romanticism, 59, 61–62, 67
Germanus, Moses, 29
Gersonides, 142
Ginzberg, Asher, 117
Glickson, Moshe, 125–26, 232n53
Globus (journal), 167
God: Some Conversations (Herder), 62, 99
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 61, 62, 66, 68, 218n82
Goldstein, Rebecca, 195, 199–200
Gordon, Judah Leib, 222n37
Gorin, Bernard, 157
Gottlieb, Michah, 212n18
Graetz, Heinrich, 169
Graevius, J. G., 15
Greenberg, Uri Zvi, 165, 240n47
Grégoire, Abbé Henri, 28
Guide to the Perplexed (Maimonides), 35–36, 93–95, 223n63
Guide to the Perplexed of the Time, The (Krochmal), 93, 95–98
Guttmann, Julius, 212n15
Gutzkow, Karl, 67, 90, 92, 108, 222n41
Ha-me’asef (periodical), 93
Ha-Poel ha-Tsa’ir (journal), 131
Ha-Shiloah (journal), 129, 132, 133
Ha‘am, Ahad, 117, 124, 125–26, 127, 129–30, 133, 143–44, 233n70
Hague, The, 137–39
Halakhah, 1, 17, 44–45, 59–60, 69
Hasidism, 91, 94
Haskalah and History (Feiner), 84
Haskalah movement, 64, 82–84, 84–90, 93, 94, 143, 220n20
He-Haluts (periodical), 89, 90
Hebrew, 85–88
Hebrew Enlightenment. See Haskalah movement
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 113–16, 136, 140
Heeb: The New Jew Review (magazine), 190
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 61, 66, 68
Heine, Heinrich, 56, 57, 64, 67–68, 216n47, 228n9, 234n92
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 61, 62, 68, 99
herem (excommunication) of Spinoza. See excommunication of Spinoza
Herrera, Abraham Cohen, 29–30
Herz-Shikmoni, Georg, 148, 150, 236n138
Herzl, Theodor, 117, 122
Herzog, Isaac Halevi, 150
Hess, Moses, 56, 57, 120–21, 124, 164, 231n37
Hill of the Guide (Maimon), 95
Himmelfarb, Zvi, 121–22
Hirszenberg, Samuel, 107–8, 109, 110, 227n116
historiography, 9
Hobbes, Thomas, 212n17
Hokhmat Yisrael, 87–88, 99, 221nn27, 30
Hölderlin, Johann, 61
Holdheim, Samuel, 75, 218n79
Howe, Irving, 189
Hubner, Julius, 54
humanism, and Judaism, 116, 135–36
Ibn Ezra, 72, 75, 82, 97, 142
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon, 141, 142, 145
Idealism, German. See German Idealism
immanence, 193
immortality of the soul, 207n19
Israel, Jonathan, 9, 83, 204n11, 209n41, 220nn16, 17
Israel, State of, 147–51, 189–90
Jacobi, F. H., 31, 35, 46–50, 58, 62
Jauss, Hans Robert, 227n114
Jelles, Jarig, 28
Jellinek, Hermann, 221n35
Jerusalem (Mendelssohn), 43–46, 50, 51, 60, 212n15, 212n18
Jerusalem Spinoza Institute, 192
Jesus, 17
Jewish Academy Union of Philosophers, 139–40
“Jewish Character of the Philosophy of Spinoza, The” (Klausner), 114, 141–42, 228n5
Jewish Enlightenment. See Haskalah movement
Jewish identity, 1–2, 193–94, 196, 199–20
1; in Diaspora, 118–20; Mendelssohn on Jews in society, 41–46
Jewish Question, 116–17
Jewish Renaissance, 129, 233n66
Jewish secularism, 4, 5, 8, 189–92, 196–201, 203n5
Jewish State, The (Herzl), 122
Joseph II, 42
Judaism: Berlin conversions from (Taufepidimie), 64, 215n31; in German intellectualism, 62–63, 68–69, 216n51; and humanism, 135–36; and national pantheism, 124–32, 143–46; orthodoxy, 213n32; Reform movement, 59–60, 69, 77–78, 214n17; in Theological-Political Treatise, 16–17
Judaism and Recent Literature (Auerbach), 67–70, 73, 76–77
Kabbalah, 28–32, 72, 96–97, 158–59, 161, 212n10
Kabbalah denudata, 29
Katz, Jacob, 229n18
Kerem Hemed (journal), 94
Klatzkin, Jakob, 127–28, 144, 233n, 60, 235n100
Klausner, Yosef, 89, 112, 113–16, 121–22, 126, 132–36, 140–46, 148, 220n18, 228n5, 234nn77, 79
Kohler, Kaufmann, 214n17
Kohn, Abraham, 91, 222n38
Korte, dog waarachtige Levens-Beschryving van Benedictus de Spinosa (Colerus), 24, 71
Kortholt, 206nn8–9
Kossover, Baruch, 159
Krantz, Philip, 157
Krochmal, Abraham, 98–99, 225n80
Krochmal, Nahman, 87, 88, 93, 95–98, 103–4
La vie de M. Benoit de Spinosa (Lucas), 20–23, 71
Lachower, Pihhas, 220n18
Lange, Joachim, 36
Law, Jewish. See Halakhah
Lefin, Mendel, 95, 223n55
Leibniz, Gottfried, 15, 31, 36, 37–40, 49–50
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 41, 46–52, 68, 74
Letteris, Meir Halevi, 81–82, 84–85, 88–89, 98, 219n2, 224n76
Leviathan (Ascher), 60, 212n15
Levy, Ze’ev, 204n6
Leyvick, H., 163
Liebman, Charles, 244n3
Life of Jesus (Strauss), 66
“Life of the Wise Scholar Baruch de Spinoza, The” (Letteris), 81–82
Lilienblum, Moses I., 133
Literarishe bleter (journal), 165
Lovers of Zion movement, 132–33, 231n39
Lowenstein, Steven, 215n31
Lucas, Jean-Maximilien, 20–23, 28, 208n26, 208n35
Lurianism, 29
Luzzatto, Samuel David, 82, 87, 88, 97, 141–42, 143, 219n4
Magnes, Judah L., 113
Maimon, Salomon, 95, 159, 223n60
Maimonides, Moses, 35–36, 83, 84, 91, 142; influence of, 93–95; Krochmal’s refinement of, 96–99; Rubin’s rejection of, 99–105
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