Commentary

• Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity

  - Smith, Steven B. Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
  From the Publisher: “Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677)—often recognized as the first modern Jewish thinker—was also a founder of modern liberal political philosophy. This book is the first to connect systematically these two aspects of Spinoza’s… More

• Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921-1932)

  - Strauss, Leo. Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921-1932). SUNY Series in the Jewish Writings of Leo Strauss. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
  From the Publisher: “This translation of eighteen virtually unknown early publications provides access for the first time to the origins of Leo Strauss’s thought in the intellectual life of the German Jewish ‘renaissance’ in the 1920s.… More