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245 10 a| Jewish politics in Spinoza's Amsterdam /c| Anne O. Albert.;

264 1 a| London :b| The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,c| 2022.;

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300 a| xiv, 371 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

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520 a| "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."--c| From Amazon.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

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Jewish politics in Spinoza's Amsterdam / Anne O. Albert.

Author/creator	Albert, Anne O. author.
Format	Book
Publication	London : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2022.
Distribution	New York, NY : Oxford University Press
Description	xiv, 371 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677--Influence. Judaism and politics--Netherlands. --Amsterdam. --History. --17th century. Judaism and politics--Netherlands. --Amsterdam. --Historiography. Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Politics and government. --17th century. Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Religion. --17th century.

Series	The Littman library of Jewish civilization Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series) ^A512653
Abstract	"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."-- From Amazon.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	History.
ISBN	9781789622294
ISBN	1789622298 (hardcover)

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