Di Etik.

SPINOZA, BARUCH.

Kultur Liga-Naye Gezelshaft

Warsaw-Chicago

1923

First Yiddish edition. Translated by W. Nathanson. Frontispiece portrait of Spinoza tipped in.

“Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometric Order,” first published in 1677, is one of the most important (and difficult) texts written by one of the more radical of modern philosophers, Baruch Spinoza. It is not directly about ethics so much as about theology, the place where Spinoza, the “God-intoxicated man,” develops his argument that God is all there is. Apart from one 19th-century Hebrew abridged paraphrase of the Ethics, it was not available in any Jewish language until W. Nathanson of New York produced this Yiddish translation in 1923. A Hebrew translation from the Latin by Jacob Klatzkin was published the following year.