The George Washington University
Left: The Confirmed Drunkard, 1826, Folger Shakespeare Library | Right: Hondius Map of Venezuela, 1630, Library of Congress Geography




Daniel Schwartz

Assistant Professor of History

801 22nd St. NW #317 Phone: (202) 994-2397
Washington, D.C. 20052 Email: dbs50@gwu.edu

Professor Daniel SchwartzDaniel Schwartz specializes in modern Jewish and European intellectual and cultural history. He is currently finishing The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image, a book that traces the shifting image of the seventeenth-century Dutch Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza in modern Jewish culture. His research interests include Jewish historical consciousness, early modern and modern Jewish identities, and Jewish intellectuals. (Complete C.V.)

Selected Publications

Spinoza in Modern Jewish Culture: A Reader. Brandeis University Press, forthcoming.

"Spinoza: Hero, Infidel, Celebrity." The Jewish Daily Forward, 30 June 2006, 6.

Courses Taught

Hist 101: The Jewish Intellectual
Hist 158: Modern Jewish History
Hist 161: History of Modern Israel
Hist 201: History and Historians

Education

Ph.D., Columbia University, 2007.

© 2009 The George Washington University