Wertheim, David J.:
Salvation through Spinoza : a Study of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany

Leiden [e.a.] : Brill, 2011. - X, 234 pp. - (Jewish and Christian Perspectives ; 21).

Contains bibliography: 222-230

Literature type: Monographs
Language: English
Thematic areas: Philosophy of politics and law, Philosophy of history, Reception history, Spinoza and Judaism / Jewish philosophy
Subject: E, TTP
Subject (individuals): Baumgardt, David ; Buber, Martin ; Cohen, Hermann ; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang ; Grunwald, Max ; Heine, Heinrich ; Katz, M. ; Kayser, Rudolph ; Klatzkin, Jacob ; Lehmann, J. ; Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim ; Mendelssohn, Moses ; Rosenzweig, Franz ; Schachnowitz, Selig ; Strauss, Leo ; Theilhaber, Felix

Reviews: Melamed, Yitzhak (2013)

Complete bibliographic evaluation: yes
Autopsy: yes
English commentary: Guided by the Spinoza interpretations in the contributions to the two Spinoza Memorial years 1927 and 1932 in the Jewish press, the author reconstructs the diverse and divergent Jewish self-understandings in Weimar Germany as different, even divergent expressions of and reactions to the coincidence of liberal and anti-liberal tendencies in the Weimar Republic: Integratonist, zionist, messianic identifications with Spinoza, partially by the same author, are accompanied by rare rejections of a Jewish Spinoza by orthodox and some intellectual authors.

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