Rebecca Goldstein on "Betraying Spinoza" at Washington Jewish Literary Festival September 17, 2006

The Washington DCJCC's Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival and Nextbook present Rebecca Goldstein
"Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity"
3:00 pm; $8, Discounted Member Price $6
At the Washington DCJCC, 1529 16th Street NW

On July 27, 1656, Amsterdam's Jewish community declared Baruch Spinoza excommunicated, and, at the age of twenty-three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He denied the immortality of the soul and challenged the accepted belief that the Torah was literally given by God. His work remains as resonant and provocative today as it was when it first appeared. In Betraying Spinoza, Rebecca Goldstein sets out to rediscover the flesh-and-blood man often buried beneath the veneer of rigorous rationality and to provide a comprehensive cultural and religious context for the formation of his ideas.

Rebecca Goldstein is the author of Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel, five novels and a book of short stories.

For tickets to this event, call (888) 621-2230 on weekdays between Noon and 4:00 pm or purchase online at www.nextbook.org. JCC Members, students with ID, seniors, persons under 25 and groups of 8 or more may purchase tickets at the discounted rate.

Official Website: http://www.dcjcc.org/arts/literature