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presents "The 'Jewish' Rembrandt," an
exhibit running Oct. 11,2006-March
2,2007. According to the museum, it
is becoming common to find the art-
ist described as a "Jewish" artist, and
the exhibit will unravel that myth.
"The 'Jewish' Rembrandt," besides
assembling Rembrandt masterpieces,
juxtaposes them with comparable
works by other masters and inter-
sperses them with documentary evi-
dence and reproductions.
"Some people discovered echoes
of Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah) in
his paintings, but is this really so?"
asks Barbara Reuten, a spokesperson
for the museum. "Many of his works

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Information on the celebration of
the anniversary of Rembrandt's
birth is available at
www.rembrandt400.com .

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were given Jewish titles, but it's far
from clear if these were warranted.
"Encircled by snippets of sound
and visuals, accompanied by the
voices of experts and encouraged by
animations showing scenes of 17th-
century Amsterdam, visitors to the
exhibition can explore the past and
come to their own conclusions." E

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s the 400th anniversary
of Rembrandt's birth
is being marked, there
is another figure of his time and
territory coming to light in a new
biography by Rebecca Goldstein.
It is part of the Jewish Encounters
series offered by Nextbook, which
brings together specialized writers
to explore people, ideas and events
of the Jewish past.
In her new book, Betraying
Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who
Gave Us Modernity (Schocken
Books; $19.95), Goldstein, who has
written works of fact and fiction
and has taught phi-
losophy, provides a
cultural and religious
guide surrounding
Baruch Spinoza. The
pioneering advocate
for democracy and
the separation of
church and state
influenced many
great thinkers who
came after him,
including Albert
Einstein.
"My book is partly
a product of try-
ing to figure out in what way we
can consider Spinoza Jewish,"
Goldstein explains. "One of the
issues is whether Spinoza can, in
any way, be considered a Jewish
thinker. He was excommunicated at
age 23 by the Jewish community
of Amsterdam and belongs much
more to the Western canon than to
Jewish thinking.
"To present him in a Jewish

context is betraying him as the
first modern secularist. He thought
in universal terms, not sectarian
terms, and that's really important
to grasping his development."
"Doing research about Spinoza
led me to do a lot of research
about Sephardic Jewry," Goldstein
explains. "His community consisted
of refugees from the Portuguese
Inquisition.
"Spinoza's obsession with iden-
tity, understanding what makes
a person who he or she is, was in
some sense paralleled but in an
opposite direction from the obses-
sions of community
members re-identifying
themselves as Jews."
Betraying Spinoza
follows Nextbook
projects about David,
Maimonides and boxer
Barney Ross. It pre-
cedes texts about
Moses, Emma Lazarus
and messianism.
"Spinoza argued pas-
sionately that democ-
racy is the best form
of government because
it allows each person
the sacred responsibility of think-
ing things out as an individual,"
Goldstein says. "He also wrote that
government should only be there
to keep us safe so we can fulfill our
human potential."

-Suzanne Chessler

For more information, go to
www.nextbook.org .