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George Steiner, 19 April 1990

Spinoza and Other Heretics. Vol. I: The Marrano of Reason 
by Yirmiyahu Yovel.
Princeton, 244 pp., $24.50, January 1990, 0 691 07344 9
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Spinoza and Other Heretics. Vol. II: The Adventures of Immanence 
by Yirmiyahu Yovel.
Princeton, 225 pp., £29.50, January 1990, 0 691 07346 5
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... complex role. Both these motives, the Straussian and the Judaic, are crucial to Professor Yirmiyahu Yovel’s foundation of an International Spinoza Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and to his two-volume study of Spinoza and Other Heretics. Professor Yovel’s Spinoza is possessed of a supreme ...

Unrenounceable Core

David Nirenberg: Who were the Marranos?, 23 July 2009

The Other Within The Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity 
by Yirmiyahu Yovel.
Princeton, 490 pp., £24.95, February 2009, 978 0 691 13571 7
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... from converts. The term first appears several generations after 1391, but in The Other Within Yirmiyahu Yovel uses it to describe a ‘subjectivity’ that he believes emerged with the first converts to Catholicism. According to Yovel, these converts couldn’t commit themselves wholeheartedly to any ...

Who is a Jew?

Alexander Bevilacqua: Converso Identities, 10 July 2025

Strangers Within: The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Trading Elite 
by Francisco Bethencourt.
Princeton, 602 pp., £38, May 2024, 978 0 691 20991 3
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... major benefit: it puts to rest the idea that they were a kind of vanguard. The Israeli philosopher Yirmiyahu Yovel argued that the conversos’ ‘split identity’ made them modern: caught between two worlds, they were supposedly the first to experience identity as protean and individual rather than fixed and collective. Bethencourt grants that the ...

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