Award winning author Professor Steven NadlerVilas Research Professor and William H. Hay II Professor (Columbia, Ph.D. 1986)Director of UW-Madison’s Institute for Research in the Humanities Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Author:Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam (“Jewish Lives”, Yale, 2018)Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge, 1999; second edition, 2018); The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2008); The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century (2009), co-edited with Tamar Rudavsky; A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age (Princeton, 2011) The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes (Princeton, 2013). MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL#3 Was Menasseh an influential printer? • Menssaeh was a very influential printer• Printing got him in trouble with the Jewish community• Published the first Hebrew books in Amsterdam• Made Amsterdam the leading center for Hebrew printing• Printing was his most important contribution to Jewish History 

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