"SUNY Press [State University of New York Press] sponsors nationally recognized and rapidly growing lists of publications in the areas of African American Studies, Asian Studies, Education, Environmental Studies, Indigenous Studies, Italian American Studies, Jewish Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Queer Studies, Religion, Transpersonal Psychology, and Women's Studies" (web.archive.org/web/20190815012411/https://www.sunypress.edu/l-18-about.aspx).
"The press, which was founded in 1966, is located in [353 Broadway] Albany, New York and publishes scholarly works in various fields. [...] Books published by SUNY Press are 80% scholarly works from professors within the SUNY system or other schools and universities. The remaining 20% are aimed at a general audience" (WP).
[ 1966, f.e. "The Early Labor Movement"] [ 1980, f.e. "The Last of the Mohicans" ] [ 1990, f.e. "In the Shadow of History" ] [ 2000, f.e. "Nomadic Sprituality" ] [ 2010, f.e. "Exiled German Scholars" ] [ 2020-2025 ]
Auswahl. Selection
Abb. / Fig.: "Postcard image of D&H building, Plaza, and Federal Building / Post Office; Albany, New York", 1915, published prior to 1923, Public Domain (modified).
Edward Pessen: "Most Uncommon Jacksonians. The Radical Leaders of the Early Labor Movement", 1967.
David J. Kalupahana: "Nagurjuna. The Philosophy of the Middle Way", 1968.
"The Madrigal Collection L'amorosa Ero (Brescia, 1588)", compiled by, Marc'Antonio Martinengo, Contributor Harry B. Lincoln, 1968.
Marvin Farber: "Naturalism and Subjectivism", 1968.
Donald H. Stewart: "The Opposition Press of the Federalist Period", 1969.
Paul Muller-Ortega: "The Triadic Heart of Siva", 1969.
"New Hamphire's Child. The Derry Journals of Lesley Frost", edited by Arnold Grade and Lawrance Thompson, 1969.
William Bysshe Stein: "The Poetry of [Herman] Melville's Late Years. Time, History, Myth, and Religion", 1970.
C. K. Yearley: "The Money Machines. The Breakdown and Reform of Governmental and Party Finance in the North, 1860-1920", 1970.
Hrair R. Dekmejian: "Egypt under Nasir. A Study in Political Dynamics", 1971.
"The [Herbert C.] Hoover Presidency. A Reappraisal", edited by Martin L. Fausold and George T. Mazuzan, 1974.
Raoul Naroll, Vern L. Bullough and Frada Naroll: "Military Deterrence in History", 1974.
"The Gilded Age Letters of E. L. Godkin", edited by William M. Armstrong, 1974.
"Newdick's Session of Frost. An interrupted Biography of Robert Frost", edited by William A. Sutton, 1976.
James Fenimore Cooper: "The Pioneers or the Sources of the Susquehanna. A Descriptive Tale", Introduction by & Notes by James Franklin Beard, Text by Lance Schachterle and Kenneth M. Andersen Jr., 1980.
Stephen Meyer III: "The Five Dollar Day. Labor Management and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company, 1908-1921", 1981.
Norman Cazde, Herbert Haufrecht and Norman Studer: "Notes and Sources for Folk Songs of the Catskills", 1982.
William Toll: "The Making of an Ethnic Middle Class. Portland Jewry over Four Generations", 1982.
Mark Goldman: "High Hopes. The Rise and Decline of Buffalo", 1983.
James Fenimore Cooper: "The Last of the Mohicans", Introduction by James Franklin Beard, Text by James A. Sappenfield and E. N. Feltskog, 1983.
"Legislating Bureaucratic Change. The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978", edited by Patricia W. Ingraham and Carolyn Ban, 1984.
Lester W. Milbrath: "Environmentalists. Vanguard for a New Society", 1984.
Charles Hartshorne: "Omnipotence and other Theological Mistakes", 1984.
Donald E. Polkinghorne: "Methodology for the Human Sciences. Systems of Inquiry", 1984.
James Fenimore Cooper: "The Prairie. A Tale", Introduction by & Notes by James P. Elliott, 1985.
Gilmer W. Blackburn: "Education in the Third Reich. A Study of Race and History in Nazi Textbooks", 1985.
"Between [Immanuel] Kant and [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich] Hegel. Texts in the Development of Post-Kantian Idealism", edited by George di Giovanni and H. S. Harris, 1985.
Daid Lewis: "Black and Red. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War, 1944-1963", 1986.
Minion K. C. Morrison: "Black Political Mobilization. Leadership, Power and Mass Behavior", 1987.
"Women in World Religions", edited by Arvind Sharma, Introduction by Katherine K. Young, 1987.
"Business Elites and Urban Development", edited by Scott Cummings, 1988.
Brenda Danet: "Pulling Strings. Biculturalism in Israeli Bureaucracy", 1989.
"Liberty, Property, and Government. Constitutional Interpretation Before the New Deal, edited by Ellen Frankel Paul and Howard Dickman, 1989.
Baird Callicott: "In Defense of the Land Ethic. Essays on Environmental Philosophy", 1989.
Issa J. Boullata: "Trends and Issues in Contemporary Arab Thought", 1989.
James Fenimore Cooper: "Satanstoe, or the Littlepage Manuscripts. A Tale of the Colony", Introduction by Kay Seymour House, Text by Constance Ayers Denne, 1990.
Harold M. Rose, Paula D. McClain: "Race, Place, and Risk. Black Homicide in Urban America", 1990.
Annemarie Schimmel: "Islam. An Introduction", 1992.
José Faur: "In the Shadow of History. Jews and Conversos at the Dawn of Modernity", 1992 ("Preface", "Introduction", "1. Jewish Spain on the Eve of Expulsion", "2. On Beeing a 'Faithful Christian'", "3. Typology of the Converso", "4. A Visceral View of Spain. Góngora and Lazarillo de Tormes", "5. Alone in the 'Valley of Tears'. The Case of Fernando de Rojas", "6. Francisco Sánchez and the Quest for a New Rationality", "7. Uriel da Costa. The Man behind the Mirror", "8. [Baruch de] Spinoza and the Secularization of Western Society", "9. The End of Philosophy and the Rise of Historical Rationality. A Postmodern Interpretation", 9.I "The Expulsion from Spain and the Rise of Historical Rationality", 9.II "Hebrew Rhetoric and Biblical Historiosophy", 9.III "Cultural an Religious Pluralism", 9.IV "The Perspective of the Persecuted", 9.V "Switching Perspectives", 9.VI "Avoiding Mimetic Rivalry", 9.VII "Ibn Verga**. The Harbinger of the Postmodern Society[.] In contrast to Spinoza, the first secular man, ibn Verga may be characterized as the harbinger of postmodern society. His vision involved five fundamental elements: 1. Freedom from philosophical categories. 2. Historical rationality, which leads into 3. Interaction of viewer and event, 4. The discovery of subjectivity, and 5. Cultural and religious pluralism", 9.VIII "The Authority of Jewish Memory", 9.IX "Sacred and Secular History", 9.X "The Perspective of the Persecutor. Ethics without Pity"*).
Donileen R. Loseke: "The Battered Woman and Shelters. The Social Construction of Wife Abuse", 1992.
Robert C. Smith, Richard Seltzer: "Race, Class, and Culture. A Study in Afro-American Mass Opinion", 1992.
Yehuda Liebes: "Studies in the Zohar", 1993.
"A Postmodern Reader", edited by Joseph Natoli and Linda Hutcheon, 1993.
Ben Stoltzfus: "Lacan and Literature. Purloined Pretexts", 1996.
Andrew Weeks: "Paracelsus. Speculative Theory and the Crisis of the Early Reformation", 1996.
Richard A. Colignon: "Power Plays. Critical Events in the Institutionalization of the Tennessee Valley Authority", 1996.
Andrew Furman: "Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination. A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995", 1997.
Sara R. Horowitz: "Voicing the Void. Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction", 1997.
Thomas C. Parkhill: "Weaving Ourselves into the Land. Charles Godfrey Leland, 'Indians,' and the Study of Native American Religions", 1997.
Edward Dudley: "The Endless Text. Don Quixote and the Hermeneutics of Romance", 1997.
Brian C. Schmidt: "The Political Discourse of Anarchy. A Disciplinary History of International Relations", 1997.
Ben-Ami Scharfstein: "A Comparative History of World Philosophy. From the Upanishads to Kant", 1998.
"Lao-tzu and the Tao-te-ching", edited by Livia Kohn and Michael LaFargue, 1998.
Reiko Tachibana: "Narrative as Counter-Memory. A Half-Century of Postwar Writing in Germany and Japan", 1998.
"Feminism and World Religions", edited by Arvind Sharma and Katherine K. Young, 1998.
"African American Leadership", edited by Ronald W. Walters and Robert C. Smith, 1999.
Charles S. Varano: "Forced Choices. Class, Community, and Worker Ownership", 1999.
John Morreall: "Comedy, Tragedy, and Religion", 1999.
Venetria K. Patton: "Women in Chains. The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction", 1999.
Stephen Gilbert Brown: "Words in the Wilderness. Critical Literacy in the Borderlands", Foreword by Gary A. Olson, 2000.
Charles Reitz: "Art, Alienation, and the Humanities. A Critical Engagement with Herbert Marcuse", 2000.
Morris Berman: "Wandering God. A Study in Nomadic Sprituality", 2000 (s. Artikel über Lord William Taylor).
Richard Mason: "Before Logic", 2000 ("Description": "Argues that there is an undeniable and essentially historical dimension to logic").
William E. Nelson Jr.: "Black Atlantic Politics. Dilemmas of Political Empowerment in Boston and Liverpool", 2000.
Douglas Robinson: "Who Translates? Translator Subjectivities Beyond Reason", 2001.
Eric Lawee: "Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition. Defense, Dissent, and Dialogue", 2001.
As'ad Ghanem: "The Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel, 1948-2000. A Political Study", 2001.
Mary Douglas Vavrus: "Postfeminist News. Political Women in Media Culture", 2002.
James Arthur Diamond: "Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment. Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in The Guide of the Perplexed", 2002.
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster: "Performing Whiteness. Postmodern Re/Constructions in the Cinema", 2003.
Olakunle George: "Relocating Agency. Modernity and African Letters", 2003.
Carol L. Winkelmann: "The Language of Battered Women. A Rhetorical Analysis of Personal Theologies", 2003.
Todd McGowan: "The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment", 2003.
Ellie Ragland: "The Logic of Sexuation. From Aristotle to Lacan", 2004.
"Decolonizing Research in Cross-Cultural Contexts. Critical Personal Narratives", edited by Kagendo Mutua and Beth Blue Swadener, 2004.
Wilfried Ver Eecke: "Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative. Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles", 2005.
Carol K. Winkler: "In the Name of Terrorism. Presidents on Political Violence in the Post-World War II Era", 2005.
Ronald L. Jackson II: "Scripting the Black Masculine Body. Identity, Discourse, and Racial Politics in Popular Media", 2006.
"Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life. Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy and Epistemology", edited by Dolores Delgado Bernal, C. Alejandra Elenes, Francisca E. Godinez and Sofia Villenas, 2006.
Anantanand Rambachan: "The Advaita Worldview. God, World, and Humanity", 2006 ("Description": "A new interpretation of Hindu tradition focusing on the nature of God, the value of the world, and the meaning of liberation").
Lisa Guenther: "The Gift of the Other. [Emmanuel] Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction", 2006.
Maurice Maeterlinck: "The Intelligence of Flowers", translated by & Introduction by Philip Mosley, 2007.
"The Sociology of Spatial Inequality", edited by Linda M. Lobao, Gregory Hooks and Ann R. Tickamyer, 2007.
Patti Lather"Getting Lost. Feminist Efforts toward a Double(d) Science", 2007.
William F. S. Miles: "Zion in the Desert. American Jews in Israel's Reform Kibbutzim", 2007.
Todd McGowan: "The Real Gaze. Film Theory after Lacan", 2007.
"The International Eliade", edited by Bryan Rennie, 2007 ("Description": "The International Eliade brings together contributors from beyond the Anglo-American milieu to consider the work of Mircea Eliade. Significant new insights and information concerning Eliade, his past, and potential applications of his thought are provided by scholars from Romania, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Norway, France, Argentina, India, Korea, Japan, and Québec, Canada. Intended as a balanced consideration of Eliade's significance, the collection recognizes the restrictions and shortcomings of his work, and gives the English-language reader access to research in Eliade studies being done in a global arena").
Helene Scheck: "Reform and Resistance. Formations of Female Subjectivity in Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Culture", 2008 ("Description": "Explores the relationship between gender and identity in early medieval Germanic societies").
Esther Rashkin: "Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture", 2008.
Ruth B. Bottigheimer: "Fairy Tales. A New History", 2009 ("Description": "Conventional wisdom holds that fairy tales originated in the oral traditions of peasants and were recorded for posterity by the Brothers Grimm during the nineteenth century. Ruth B. Bottigheimer overturns this view in a lively account of the origins of these well-loved stories. Charles Perrault created Cinderella and her fairy godmother, but no countrywoman whispered this tale into Perrault's ear. Instead, his Cinderella appeared only after he had edited it from the book of often amoral tales published by Giambattista Basile in Naples. Distinguishing fairy tales from folktales and showing the influence of the medieval romance on them, Bottigheimer documents how fairy tales originated as urban writing for urban readers and listeners").
Anna Everett: "Digital Diaspora. A Race for Cyberspace", 2009 ("Description": "Traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace").
David V. Ciavatta: "Spirit, the Family, and the Unconscious in Hegel's Philosophy", 2009.
Eve Pell: "We Used to Own the Bronx. Memoirs of a Former Debutante", 2009.
Sally L. Kitch: "The Specter of Sex. Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States", 2009.
Martin Heidegger: "Being and Time. A Revised Edition of the Stambaugh Translation", translated by Joan Stambaugh, revised by & Foreword by Dennis J. Schmidt, 2010.
Juan-David Nasio: "Oedipus. The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis", translated by David Pettigrew and François Raffoul, 2010.
Gerald Vizenor: "Shrouds of White Earth", 2010.
Karlyn Crowley: "Feminism's New Age. Gender, Appropriation, and the Afterlife of Essentialism", 2011.
Joanna Clapps Herman: "The Anarchist Bastard. Growing Up Italian in America", 2011.
G. William Barnard: "Living Consciousness. The Metaphysical Vision of Henri Bergson", 2011.
Breanne Fahs: "Performing Sex. The Making and Unmaking of Women's Erotic Lives", 2011.
Mohammed Rustom: "The Triumph of Mercy. Philosophy and Scripture in Mullā Ṣadrā", 2012 ("Description": "Discusses philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā's commentary on the opening chapter of the Qur'ān. Winner of the 21st International Book of the Year Prize in Iran").
Liyan Liu: "Red Genesis. The Hunan First Normal School and the Creation of Chinese Communism, 1903-1921", 2012.
Craig M. Loftin: "Masked Voices. Gay Men and Lesbians in Cold War America", 2012 ("Description": "An analysis of unpublished letters to the first American gay magazine reveals the agency, adaptation, and resistance occurring in the gay community during the McCarthy era").
Peter K. J. Park: "Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy. Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780-1830", 2013.
Kenneth Liberman: "More Studies in Ethnomethodology", Foreword by Harold Garfinkel, 2013.
Lawrence Cahoone: "The Orders of Nature", 2013.
Robert P. Watson: "America's First Crisis. The War of 1812", 2013.
Harry Rosenfeld: "From Kristallnacht to Watergate. Memoirs of a Newspaperman", 2014.
Shannon Sullivan: "Good White People. The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism", 2014.
Jonathan Bricklin: "The Illusion of Will, Self, and Time. William James's Reluctant Guide to Enlightenment", 2015.
Joscelyn Godwin: "Upstate Cauldron. Eccentric Spiritual Movements in Early New York State", 2015 ("Description": "A guide to the phenomenal crop of prophets, cults, and utopian communities that arose in Upstate New York from 1776 to 1914").
"Out of the Closet, Into the Archives. Researching Sexual Histories", edited by Amy L. Stone and Jaime Cantrell, 2015.
David Greven: "Ghost Faces. Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity", 2016.
Ilan Stavans: "Borges, the Jew", 2016 ("Description": "In this volume, award-winning cultural critic and controversial public intellectual Ilan Stavans focuses his attention on Jorge Luis Borges's fascination with Jewish culture. Despite not being Jewish himself, Borges wrote essays, poems, and stories dealing with various aspects of Jewish history and culture-from the Holocaust to Kabbalah and from Franz Kafka to the creation of the State of Israel. In periods when anti-Semitism in Argentina was on the rise, Borges was clear in his refutation of such xenophobia, and when Jewish writers were hardly available in Spanish, he was among the first to translate them").
Zachary A. Casey: "A Pedagogy of Anticapitalist Antiracism. Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and Resistance in Education", 2016.
Greg Bird: "Containing Community. From Political Economy to Ontology in [Giorgio] Agamben, [Roberto] Esposito, and [Jean-Luc] Nancy", 2016.
B. Christine Arce: "México's Nobodies. The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women", 2017.
Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and Sofia Nikolaevna Globacheva: "The Truth of the Russian Revolution. The Memoirs of the Tsar's Chief of Security and His Wife", translated by Vladimir G. Marinich, 2017.
Brooke Kroeger: "The Suffragents. How Women Used Men to Get the Vote", 2017.
Thomas J. J. Altizer: "Satan and Apocalypse. And Other Essays in Political Theology", 2017 ("Description": "Offers a profound vision of the Christian epic as the site of the modern apocalyptic reenactment of the original apocalypse").
Elizabeth Schleber Lowry: "Invisible Hosts. Performing the Nineteenth-Century Spirit Medium's Autobiography", 2017.
Cynthia Burack: "Because We Are Human. Contesting US Support for Gender and Sexuality Human Rights Abroad", 2018.
Darren Barany: "The New Welfare Consensus. Ideological, Political, and Social Origins", 2018 ("Description": "Discusses the conservative ideological and political attack on welfare in the United States").
Hila Amit: "A Queer Way Out. The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel", 2018 ("Description": "The very language of Zionism prizes the concept of immigration to Israel (aliyah, literally ascending) while stigmatizing emigration from Israel (yerida, descending). In A Queer Way Out, Hila Amit explores the as-yet-untold story of queer Israeli emigrants. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Berlin, London, and New York, she examines motivations for departure and feelings of unbelonging to the Israeli national collective").
"The First Zionist Congress. An Annotated Translation of the Proceedings", translated by & Introduction by Michael J. Reimer, 2019.
Michael D. Nichols: "Malleable Māra. Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil", 2019.
Jennifer Cazenave: "An Archive of the Catastrophe. The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah", 2019.
"Trans People in Higher Education", edited by Genny Beemyn, 2019.
Adam Loughnane: "Merleau-Ponty and Nishida. Artistic Expression as Motor-Perceptual Faith", 2019.
Avihu Zakai: "The Pen Confronts the Sword: Exiled German Scholars Challenge Nazism", 2019 [transl.: "העט נגד החרב. אינטלקטואלים גרמנים גולים במאבק נגד הנאציזם", Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik 2020].
Christel N. Temple: "Black Cultural Mythology", 2020 ("Description": "Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies").
Ana-Maurine Lara: "Queer Freedom. Black Sovereignty", 2020.
Philipp von Wussow: "Leo Strauss and the Theopolitics of Culture", 2020.
Shawna Ross: "Charlotte Brontë at the Anthropocene", 2020.
"Since 1948. Israeli Literature in the Making", edited by Nancy E. Berg and Naomi B. Sokoloff, 2020.
Daniela Huber: "The International Dimension of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict. A Post-Eurocentric Approach", 2021.
Richard H. Jones: "An Introduction to the Study of Mysticism", 2021.
"Black Lives Matter in US Schools. Race, Education, and Resistance", edited by Boni Wozolek, 2022.
"Screening #MeToo. Rape Culture in Hollywood", edited by Lisa Funnell and Ralph Beliveau, 2022.
"Black Women and Public Health. Strategies to Name, Locate, and Change Systems of Power", edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, Sarita K. Davis, Leslie R. Hinkson and Deanna J. Wathington, 2022.
Ian Alexander Moore: "Dialogue on the Threshold. [Martin] Heidegger and [Georg] Trakl", 2022.
Randall S. Beach: "A Passionate Life. W. H. H. Murray, from Preacher to Progressive", 2022 ("Description": "One hundred fifty years ago, the Adirondack Mountains were overrun. Thousands of middle-class urbanites from Boston and New York City abandoned the comfort of their homes and rushed into the unknown, northern wilderness, believing they would find great restorative and even curative powers. These would-be adventurers were informed by one man, William Henry Harrison Murray [1849-1904], a preacher from Boston").
David Farrell Krell: "Struck by Apollo. [Friedrich] Hölderlin's Journeys to Bordeaux and Back and Beyond", 2023.
Michael F. Andrews: "One (Un)Like the Other. Rethinking Ethics, Empathy, and Transcendence from Husserl to Derrida", 2024.
Geoffrey Maguire: "Bodies of Water. Queer Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Cinema", 2024.
David J. Blacker: "Deeper Learning with Psychedelics. Philosophical Pathways through Altered States", 2024.
Dominic Dean: "Killing Children in British Fiction. Thatcherism to Brexit", 2024.
Wilson Kwamogi Okello: "On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human. Toward Black Specificity in Higher Education", 2024.
Tanika Sarkar: "Religion and Women in India. Gender, Faith, and Politics, 1780s-1980s", 2024.
Leslie A. Fiedler: "Writing Home. Selected World War II Letters of Leslie A. Fiedler", edited by & Introduction by Samuele F. S. Pardini, 2024.
Adam W. Coon: "The Serpent's Plumes. Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement", 2024.
Amr Kamal: "Emporialism. Department Store Fictions and the Politics of the Mediterranean", 2024 ("Description": "A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1869 to the present").
Richard Heppner: "Woodstock. From World War to Culture Wars", 2024.
Sam Stiegler: "Going Along with Trans, Queer, and Non-Binary Youth", 2024.
Stephanie Y. Evans: "Black Feminist Writing. A Practical Guide to Publishing Academic Books", 2024.
"A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States. From Margins to Mainstream", edited by Carolyn Wolf-Gould, Dallas Denny, Jamison Green and Kyan Lynch, 2025.
"Smashing the Tablets. Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible", edited by Sara Lippmann and Seth Rogoff, 2025.
Henry H. Sapoznik: "The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City", 2025.
Publications after 2025 are not listened.
[ Anmerkungen. annotations. remarques. notes ]
* José Faur, a.a.O., S. 215ff.: "From the perspective of Jews of the type of [Samuel] ibn Verga**, [Samuel] Usque, [R. Saul Levi] Mortera***, and [Isaac] Cardoso****, Spinoza represented a retrogression to medieval rationality an authoritarianism. [...] More seriously, Spinoza ignores history, particulary when it affects Jews. Somehow he managed to produce an enitre philosophical and ethical system without any reference to the most catastrophic events of his time: the systematic extermination of Jews in Western Europe, beginning with the massacre of entire communities in Germany and France under the banner of the First Crusade, and ending with the establishment of the Inquisition and Expulsion of the Jews in Spain and Portugal. Silence such matters, particularly by a thinker of Jewish background, sends eerie reverberations into the present. It is as if one such thinker in our days would write on similar topics ignoring the Holocaust. Thie either indicates that Jewish suffering is ethically and philosophically meaningless or, what amounts to the same, that the perspective of the victim is inconsequential.
More shamefully, in one of the few allusions to Jewish suffering, Spinoza went out of his way to distort history in order to deny to the Jews the status of the persecuted. The Jews have no right to grieve: their misfortunes are the result of their own religion and their own hatred of gentiles. By discrediting the perspective of Jewish history and accusing the Jews of hatred of gentiles, at once Spinoza muzzled the persecuted and justified the persecutor. This was consistent with his political philosophy that might is right: the persecuted must be always in the wrong and the persecutor in the right. [...]
In championing the cause of secularism, Spinoza succeeded in disconnecting philosophy from theology. His intention was not to make philosophy free, but to transform it into the handmaiden of politics. In this manner, philosophy (and philosophers) could now be in the service of the political establishment. The result was a new type of rhetoric, which expressed in 'secular,' rather than 'religious' terms the perspective of the persecutor. Appropriately, the persecution of minorities and social and political undesirables could now be justified on secular grounds. It also enabled secularists to join the persecutors, without having to yield to traditional religious rhetoric. [...] In his Theological-Political Treatise Spinoza sought to overthrow the perspective of the persecuted. In the Ethics he formulated the moral tenets of the persecutor. It is no wonder, therefore, that his ideology became favorite pasttime of intellectual and emotional wimps, working as petty bureaucrats in totalitarian and authoritarian regimes".
** Salomon Ibn Verga (geb. in der zweiten Hälfte des 15. Jh. in Spanien, gest. im ersten Viertel des 16. Jh. in Flandern): "Schewet Jehuda", Adrianopolis 1554 (hebr.: Prag 1609, Amsterdam 1638, 1655, 1709, 1729, Zolkow 1802, 1804, 1807, 1809, Lemberg 1836, 1846, 1874, 1856, 1863, 1864, 1866, 1870, 1874, Jerusalem 1940, 1946, 1947, 1955, 1922; jiddisch: Krakau 1591, Amsterdam 1648, 1700, Sulzbach 1670, 1700, Wilna 1899, 1900, 1901, 1904, 1910, 1913, 1930; spanisch: Amsterdam 1640, 1706, 1744 ['Vara de Iuda'], Granada 1925, Barcelona 1991 ['La vara de Yehudah'], lateinisch: Amsterdam 1651, 1654, 1680 ['Tribus Judae'], deutsch: 'Das Buch Schevet Jehuda. Aus dem Hebräischen ins Deutsche übertragen von [...] M. Wiener', Hannover: Carl Rümpler 1856 [ books.google.com ], Neudruck 1924, neu herausgegeben, eingeleitet und mit einem Nachwort zur Geschichtsdeutung Salomo Ibn Vergas versehen von Sina Rauschenbach, Berlin 2006).
"Ibn Verga himself says that he was sent by the Spanish communities to collect money for the ransom of the prisoners of Málaga (Shebeṭ Yehudah, § 64.), but he lived also at Lisbon as a marrano, and was an eyewitness of the massacre there in 1506 (ibid § 60). Later he escaped to Turkey, probably to Adrianople, where he wrote the Shebeṭ Yehudah (Shevet Yehudah) an account of the persecutions of the Jews in different countries and epochs. [...] The historical value of the data contained in the Shebeṭ Yehudah was questioned by Isidore Loeb (['Le folk-lore juif dans la chronique du Schebet Iehuda d'Ibn Verga', in: 'Revue des études juives", vol. 24, No. 1 et seq., 1892). Loeb holds that, though an original writer, Ibn Verga is not always trustworthy, and that some of his material belongs really in the domain of legend" (WP).
*** "Saul Levi Morteira or Mortera (c. 1596 - 10 February 1660) was a rabbi in Amsterdam. He was born in Venice, so he was neither a Sephardic or Ashkenazic Jew. He became a prominent figure in the city's community of exiled Portuguese Jews. His polemical writings against Catholicism had wide circulation. [...] Among his most notable pupils were Moses Zacuto, Abraham Cohen Pimentel, and Baruch Spinoza. [...] Some of Morteira's pupils published Gibeat Shaul (Amsterdam, 1645), a collection of fifty sermons on the Pentateuch, selected from 500 derashot written by Morteira. Morteira wrote in Spanish Tractado de la Verdad de la Ley (translated into Hebrew by Isaac Gomez de Gosa under the title Torat Moshe, in 66 chapters [ Columbia University, Hebrew Manuscripts, archive.org, s. Fig. on the Right ]), apologetics of Judaism [...]".
(WP unter Bezugnahme auf Marc Saperstein: "Exile in Amsterdam. Saul Levi Morteira's Sermons to a Congregation of 'New Jews'", Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press 2005 und Miriam Bodian: "Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation. Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam", Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1997).
**** "Isaac Cardoso (born Fernando Cardoso; 1604-1683) was a Portuguese-born Sephardic Jewish physician, philosopher and polemic writer based in Verona. He was born of Marrano parents[1] at Trancoso, near Celorico, in the province of Beira, Portugal in 1603 or 1604 and died at Verona in 1683. [...] This 'learned, God-fearing physician,' as he is designated by the pious Moses Hagiz (Mishnat Chakamim, p. 120a) defended his coreligionists in his great work, Las Excelencias y Calunias de los Hebreos, printed in 1679 at Amsterdam, and dedicated March 17, 1678, to Jacob de Pinto. In ten chapters he emphasizes the 'excelencias' (distinguishing features) of the Jews, their selection by God, their separation from all other peoples by special laws, their compassion for the sufferings of others, their philanthropy, chastity, faith, etc.; and in ten other chapters he refutes the 'calunias' (calumnies) brought against them; viz., that they worship false gods, smell badly, are hard and unfeeling toward other peoples, have corrupted Scripture, blaspheme holy images and the host, kill Christian children and use the blood for ritual purposes".
(WP unter Bezugnahme auf Richard Gottheil and Meyer Kayserling: "Cardoso, Isaac (Fernando)", in: "The Jewish Encyclopedia", ed. by Isisdore Singer et al., New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1901-1906; Augusto D'Esaguy: "Isaac Cardoso, Doctor, Philosopher and Poet", in: "Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine", Vol. 6, No. 3, 1938, pp. 163-170; Abraham M. Fuss: "The Study of Science and Philosophy Justified by Jewish Tradition", in: "The Torah U-Madda Journal", Vol. 5, 1994, pp. 101-114; Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi: "From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto. Isaac Cardoso: a Study in Seventeenth-Century Marranism and Jewish Apologetics", Seattle: University of Washington Press 1981).
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