Jewish Politics in Spinoza's Amsterdam

How did Amsterdam Jews come to think of their community as a theopolitical commonwealth in the age of Spinoza and Sabbatianism?

Anne Oravetz Albert is the Klatt Family Director for Public Programs at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and executive editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Her research focuses on early modern Jewish cultural and religious history, political thought, and historiography. She is the author of Jewish Politics in Spinoza's Amsterdam (2023) and coeditor of Frontiers of Jewish Scholarship: Expanding Origins, Transcending Borders (2022). 

Alexander Kaye is Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Associate Professor of Israel Studies at Brandeis University. His work explores political thought, the history of law, and theories of Jewish modernity, with a particular focus on the relation between law, religion and politics in Israel and the history of religious Zionism. He is the author of The Invention of Jewish Theocracy (2020) and coeditor of The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History (2013).

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