WHO’S HOTTER THAN SPINOZA?

This morning’s New York Times carries a review of David
Ives’ play, “New Jerusalem: the Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud
Torah Congregation, Amsterdam, July
27 1656,” capping a veritable trifecta of publicity for the 17^th
Century Philosopher who was excommunicated by Amsterdam’s Jewish community
(interestingly, his grandparents were conversos who fled the Spanish
inquisition, and were expelled from France. It was only his father Miguel who
returned to the Jewish faith upon arriving in Amsterdam).

First there was Matthew Stewart’s well reviewed tome, “The Courtier and the
Heretic” (Norton); then Rebecca Goldstein’s “Betraying Spinoza” from Nextbook/Schocken
–where it’s been one of their best selling titles. And now (off) Broadway!

What next: Spinoza, the musical? Or “Search for Substance:
the Bento Spinoza story” ?

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